Like Banquo's Ghost
Author:
Publication date:
1968-08
Publication type:
Short Story
Published:
Worlds of If, September 1968
Opus No.:
33
Setting:
Stand Alone
Characters:
unnamed protagonist;
Butch
Summary:
A short story about the first meeting between humanity and an alien race that destroys Earth's slower-than-light probe, and then arrives for a visit in faster-than-light ships. Is it the dawn of a new era or the first shot in the War of the Worlds?
Notes:
stand-alone
Reprints:
semiprozine, Alternities, Autumn/Winter 1980; Shape of Space, The; Convergent Series