UFOs and Related Subjects (Lynn Catoe, 1969)

interlocking system of interplanetary systems is described by Eric F. Russell
in Metamorphosite. L. Sprague de Camp in The Ordeal of Profesaol'.' Klein
and A. E. Van Vogt in Repetition ironically postulate that interplanetary worlds
might duplicate tne pattern of human civilization. In Breeds There a Man,
Isaac Asimov suggests that extraterrestrial beings whose life span might be
thousands of years are studying the life cycle of Homo sapiens as they might
bacteria in a test tube. Invasion by extraterrestrials in various physical forms,
from multi-dimensional worlds, with differing motives is foreseen in John B.
Harris' Meteor; John Wyndham's And the Walls Came Tumbling Down; and
and Donald Wandrei's The Blinding Shadows.
----- The other side of the moon. New York, Pellegrini & Cudahy, 1949. 461 p.
Science fiction antholcgy. The effect that outer stars have on earth is theme
of The Star, by H. G. Wells. The Thing on Outer Shoal, by P. Schuyler Miller,
is a tale of animal mutations. A sorcerer from another planet -- exploring the
myl:lteries of time, space, and other dimensions -- comes to earth in Frank B.
Long's The World of Wulkins. Mysterious monoliths form the gateway between
three-dime1~sional earth and a civilization on a higher plane of vibration --
The City of the Singing Flame, by Clark A. Smith. A cosmic entity attempts
to make the adjustment between ethereal life and planet life in H. P. Lovecraft's
Beyond the Wall of Sleep. An extraterrestrial creature is encountered by a
bum in The Devil of East Lupton, by Murray Leinster. Existence on earth
today of a race of mutants representing the next step in man's evolution beyond
Homo sapiens is postulated in Nelson Bond's Conqueror's Isle. Attempted in-
vasion of earth by plant-animal-mineral creatures from another world is the
theme of Something from Above, by Donald Wandrei. An invading force is
killed off by an organism living in a symbiotic relationship with the planet's
native population in Will F. Jenkins' Symbiosis. As part of an invasion scheme,
an android is sent to earth from Mars in The Vault of the Beast, by A. E. Van
Vogt. The Earth Men, by Ray Bradbury, speculates that Martians are so
much like earthlings that they have completely satisfied themseh°PS th;)r,e is
I:'..> life on any sister planet and have evolved a comprehensive plan for aealing
w;th ctll self-styled visitors from other p!anets. Spiro, by Eric F. Russell,
c0nr:erns a spy by that name from Mars wi10 is able to assume any plant,
animal, or mineral form at will. In Resurrection, by A. E. Van Vogt, in-
vaders from another galaxy seeking to colonize earth, find no surviving life
on the planet and are destroyed by a human they revive in attempt to discover
nature of catastrophe that had occurred.
Dikty, T. E., ed. Great science fiction stories about Mars. New York, Frederick
Fell, Inc.-;-1966. 187 p.
Science fiction based on hypothesis that life exists on Mars. Development
of an extra brain lobe enables Martians to manipulate matter in The Sound
of Bugles, by Robert M. Williams. Invaders from Mars are robbing earth
of its atmosphere for use on their own planet in Nonstop to Mars, by Jack
Williamson. The First Martians, by A. E. Van Vogt is based on the adapt-
ability of Indians from the Andes Mountains to the Martian environment.
Martian animal life is reported as an admixture of mamilian and insect attri-
butes in Via Etherlin by Eando Binder. Interstellar expedition in Tin Lizzie,
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