UFOs and Related Subjects (Lynn Catoe, 1969)

version of H. G. Wells' novel, The War of the Worlds, adapted by Howard
Koch and presented by Orson Welles on Mercury Theater c.f the Air over CBS
on Oct. 30, 1938. A form of life resembling radio waves and dependent on
the movement of the ether, invades earth in The Waveries, by Frederic Brown.
Extraterrestrials hoping to meet earthmen as equals and colleagues conclude
that earth's life class is too primitive and full of hostilities and aggressions
for contact to be feasible in Edward Grendon's Crisi:;. Creatures from a
highly-advanced planet are eager to help promote advancement of earth's
civilization in Angel's Egg, by Edgar Pangborn. In William Tenn's Will You
Walk a Little Faster? an alien civilizaUon assigned to inhabit earth after
humanity extinguishes itself makes a proposition designed to expedite matters.
A polymorphous creature from Mercury that devours metal invades first the
earth and then the moon in Henry Norton's The Man in the Moon. In Pictures
Don't Lie, by Katherine McLean, submicroscopic aliens evolved on a high-
gravity planet with thin atmosphere that is situated near a blue-white star,
can only see objects in the ultra-violet range. The Greatest Tertian is Anthony
Boucher's burlesque on the scholarly efforts of a posthuman race to understand
earth's vanished civilization.
Craigie, Dorothy. The voyage of the Luna I, by David Craigie [ pseudJ London,
Eyre & epottiswoode, 1948. 272 p.
Science fiction. Twin teenagers -- stowaways onarocketlaunched to the moon--
explore the lurain. They encounter half-bat~ half-fish creatures and uncover
evidence there was once human life on the moon with technological capability.
Cyrano de Bergerac, Savinien. Other worlds. London, New York, Toronto,
Oxford University Press, 1965. 232 p.
Author is the hero of two vayages in space, first to the moon and then to the
sun. Original French edition with title Histoire Comique published in 1950.
De Camp, L. Sprague. Divide and rule. Reading, Pa. Fantasy Press, 1948.
231 p.
Rodent-like oviparous invaders from outer space conquer earth and maintain
their supremacy by keeping men ignorant and split into small, quarreling,
feudal states.
DerJeth, August W., ed. Beachheads in space. New York, Pellegrini & Cudahy,
1952. 320 p. -
Science fiction anthology on theme of interplanetary exploration. In The Star,
by David Keller, citizens of a nearby star receive information that earth is
planning an invasion and find a means to save their nation. Earth is under
surveillance from a vantage point on the moon in Jack Williamson's The Man
from Outside. In Beachhead, by Clifford Sim:Jc, an intergalactic scientific
mission discovers that although they were protected against the obvious and
imaginabl~, taey Wl'rP defenseless against the unknowable and unimaginable.
The Years Draw Nigh by Lester del Rey, depicts a dying cosmos. A vast
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