Alan E. Nourse

The crew of the starship Ganymede were afraid their chief was losing his mind.Commander Walter Fox had explored and opened up more colony-worlds than any other man alive - yet it was rumored that he still believed there were other intelligent beings in the galaxy.Now as the ship grounded on unfamiliar terrain, the crew realized that the routine...

"e;We have watched your plants for millennia."e;The creature that spoke was barely three feet tall, with wrinkled gray skin and monstrous eyes . . ."e;Yours is a war of children. Only children would slaughter each other out of ignorance and fear. Only children would fail again and again to learn the lessons of their...