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The Aliens 5
Fugitive From Space 38
Anthropological Note 90
Skit-Tree Planet 111
Thing From the Sky 126

COPYRIGHT © 1960, by MURRAY LEINSTER

Anthropological Note: Copyright © 1957 by Mercury Press, Inc. Originally published in The
Magazine of Fantasy and Science Fiction.

Fugitive From Space: Copyright 1954 by Ziff-Davis Publishing Company. Originally published in
Amazing Stories.

Skit-Tree Planet: Copyright 1947 by Standard Magazines, Inc. Originally published in Thrilling
Wonder Stories.

The Aliens: Copyright © 1959 by Street & Smith Publications, Inc. Originally published in
Astounding Science.Fiction.

Thing from the Sky: Copyright © 1960 by Murray Leinster.


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The Aliens
AT 04 HOURS 10 minutes, ship time, the Niccola was well inside the Theta Gisol solar system. She
had previously secured excellent evidence that this was not the home of the Plumie civilization. There
was no tuned radiation. There was no evidence of interplanetary travel-rockets would be more than
obvious, and a magnetronic drive had a highly characteristic radiation-pattern-so the real purpose of
the Niccola’s voyage would not be accomplished here. She wouldn’t find out where Plumies came
from.
There might, though, be one or more of those singular, conical, hollow-topped cairns sheltering
silicon-bronze plates, which constituted the evidence that Plumies existed. The Niccola went sunward
toward the inner planets to see. Such cairns had been found on conspicuous landmarks on oxygen-type
planets over a range of some twelve hundred light-years. By the vegetation about them, some were a