Strange, mollusc-like creatures are parasitizing humans, nestling along their spines and controlling their thoughts and actions. Scenting danger, a trio of state security secret agents heads for the site of the mystery spaceship, and discovers something exceedingly unsettling. When transmission resumes, it’s all very, “Ha ha ha! Just a couple of teenagers pulling off an elaborate hoax! Nothing to see here, folks, nothing to see…” Initial radio reports from the scene indicate that the occupants are alive and … then … silence. Flying saucer sightings have recently been reported all over the U.S.A., and one is discovered to be on the ground in the country outside Des Moines, Iowa. (Remembering that it was written in 1951, so the action is set some six decades in the future.) Misogynistic attitudes possibly put aside – though I’ve met a disturbingly large number of these folks, both male and female, who have vintage 1950s’-type views on the equality of the sexes – today’s “libertarians” seem to have ideological views right on par with Heinlein’s, so I guess you might say he was ahead of his time – or a product of his time? – in regards to his frequently trotted out diatribes on the dangers of socialism.īut on to the story. His ideal female? Built, beautiful, sexually willing, good in the kitchen and very, very quiet.
Mostly for his patronizingly chauvinistic views towards women. I found some of his more extreme libertarian and offhandedly sexist views a bit problematic way back then, but kept reading because of the storytelling – it was pretty darned good for sci-fi for its time. 175 pages.įlashback to the school library rotating paperback rack!
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