Three masterful alien-contact novellas. Three space-travelers happen upon a world where a bizarre,intruding alien transport system has distorted the local civilization into a brutal,horrifying feudalism: Nazi-style overlords; peasants; and "criminals" who are condemned for "wanting strange things,"then consigned to extermination camps. "The Kid from Hell" follows the rehabilitation of vicious child soldier Gack(born and raised on a planet where mindless warfare is endemic) after he's brought to an Earth of peace and comfort. And "Space Mowgli" is an absolute triumph: a team of scientists, rendering a near-lifeless planet fit to accommodate homeless humanoids, discovers a crashed spaceship and an eerie, elusive child survivor; weird, provocative encounters ensue, as the scientists puzzle over the Kid (is he an alien? a construct? a modified human?); and the Kid-who has a human conscious mind but an alien subconscious-struggles to reconcile this divided psyche and comprehend his human/alien mentors.
- ISBN10 0026152509
- ISBN13 9780026152501
- Publish Date 1 May 1982
- Publish Status Unknown
- Publish Country US
- Imprint MacMillan Publishing Company
- Format Hardcover
- Pages 321
- Language English