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The Visitors

By: Clifford D. Simak
Narrated by: Gary Noon
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An enormous, mysterious box descends upon small-town Minnesota, spelling trouble for the world, in this classic adventure from a Science Fiction Grand Master.

Forestry student Jerry Conklin is fly-fishing when something huge lands on his car, crushing it into the earth. It looks like a big black box-about fifty feet high and two hundred feet long-and the object stirs up quite a commotion among the townspeople of Lone Pine, Minnesota. One of them even shoots at it-and quickly pays for it with his life.

Around the country, people scramble to determine what exactly the box is. Is it a machine? Or maybe a sentient being? What does it want? They have no way of knowing.

Jerry, meanwhile, has firsthand knowledge after the visitor abducts him. Then, just as he discovers it is a living, intelligent creature, it releases him into the darkness of night.

As Jerry searches for a way back to civilization, more visitors descend upon Earth. They seem harmless enough. Then they begin eating trees, and that's only the beginning . . .

©1979, 1980 Clifford D. Simak (P)2024 Tantor
Adventure First Contact Genre Fiction Science Fiction Small Town & Rural Thriller & Suspense

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Simak produced some great science fiction and this is no exception. The story is well developed and has all the classic Simak ingredients. Gary Noon does a really excellent narration.

Excellent reading of Simak classic

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