Like Banquo's Ghost (#33)


DateSettingTypePublished
1968-08stand-alone Short StoryWorlds of If, September 1968


ReprintsCharactersNotes
semiprozine, Alternities, Autumn/Winter 1980;
Shape of Space, The
Convergent Series
unnamed protagonist;
Butch
stand-alone


Summary
First appeared in Worlds of If, September 1968. 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?