The Stranger
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Description
The Stranger is a science fiction story by Gordon R Dickson, taken from Imagination for May 1952. Its hook asks what an alien craft that is not a rocket ship can be, and whether the men who find one should look closer or run for their lives.
Jeff and Peter Wadley, son and father, bring their mining ship Emerald Girl down on an unnamed planet in the Buckhorn Cluster, five hundred and eighty-two days out of Arcturus Station. Only on the ground do they see the other ship, five hundred feet off against a cliff. Jeff beams the demand in Common Code: identify yourself. The demand crackles again and again, and no answer comes. Jeff wants to lift and report it to the Federal ships. His father says maybe it just landed, maybe it is in trouble, and they had better look into it.
Catalog record
| CREATOR | Unknown |
|---|---|
| COLLECTION | BOOKS |
| FORMAT | TXT |
| FILE SIZE | 18 KB |
| VERSION | 1.0 |
| LICENSE | Public Domain |
| RIGHTS | PUBLIC DOMAIN |
| SOURCE | Project Gutenberg |