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I Look Forward to Further Collaboration Between Our Species
I Look Forward to Further Collaboration Between Our Species Author:Edward Ringel A stoned-out, alien bionic robot named Reldap makes an emergency landing at a small airfield in rural Maine. Staggering from his half-wrecked ship, he sets out to complete his mission: develop friendly relations with the people of Earth on behalf of his home planet, Lattern, 25 light years away from Earth. — Given the unusual circumstances of his... more » arrival, this turns out to be harder than anticipated. Backwoods Maine is not exactly the center of the world's space program, and he takes whatever help he can get. To top it all off, several thousand alien critters are inadvertently let loose on the planet. Officially named kleptrons, they are referred to colloquially as brainsuckers...
Negotiating a path among an impatient Lattern mission control team, overreaching government flunkies, the usual assortment of special interest crazies, and the day-to-day foibles of 22nd Century corporate America, our hero does his best. Aided by his new-found human friends, does he succeed?« less