Harris, John B. Out of the deeps, by John Wyndham pseud. New York,
Ballantine Books, 1953. 182 p.
Fiction. Chronicles in detail the attempts of an alien race who have settled
in earth's ocean depths to destroy mankind.
Heinlein, Robert A. The menace from earth. London, Dobson, Books Ltd.,
1959. 255 p.
Science fiction 8tories. Flying saucer landings in The Year of the Jackpot
harbinger worldwide catastrophes and ultimately the end of the world. In
By His Bootstraps, a ,~~n r.omes back from the future to meet himself, fights
himself, while himself stands by and watches; a man from 30,000 years hence
is sent back to obtdn certain itmes for a resident of the future who also
turns out to be him sell.
----- The puppet masters. Garden City, N. Y., Doubleday & Co., 1951. 219 p.
Fiction. Each member of a race of slugs from out of soace · akes complete
physical and mental control of a human being.
Hoyle, Fred and Jot.;1 Elliot. A for andromeda. New York, Harper & Dros.,
1962. 206 p.
Fiction. Radio signals are received containing assembly instructions for a
human being. They were transmitted from a now dead world in our nearest
neighboring galaxy, the Andromeda nebula, two million light years distant.
Jenkins, William F. Sidewise in Time, by Murray Leinster [ pseud] . Chicago,
Shasta Publishers, 19[;0. 211 p.
Collection of fiction sto·;-ies. Sidewise in time suggests that the past, future
and present travel not in a straight line, but like a curving river; not only
are events of the actual past, present, and future blended, but also time
tracks that never h4ppened. Pcoxima Centauri is the tale of an interstellar
spaceship that is a world in itself as well as one presentini; a civilization of
carnivorous plants. A Logic Named Joe deals with the time when a device
would be present in every home, linked in with a cf:'ntral univac-type "tank,"
which would contain all man's knowledge and would dispensr information to
subscribers. De Profundis relates the inability of intelligent life inhabiting
the ocean depths to comprehend that intelligent life can exist on earth's sur-
face. In The Fourth Dimensional Demonstrator, a machine is built which,
by moving back in time, will bring into being a replica of an object placed
upon it. The Power is the story of the member of an extraterrestrial race,
stranded on earth, who wishes to impart his wisdom to mankind but is in-
stead killed because of their incomprehension.
Kazantsev, Alexander. A visitor from outer space. In A Visitor from outer
space, science fiction stories by Soviet writers; Violet L. Dutt, translator.
Moscow, Foreign Languages Publishing House, lr.61. p. 110-148.
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