Vor
The glowing ovoid plummeted downward, the whole sky screaming like a metallic banshee as the air boiled away from its sides. A supersonic bang broke over the forest, but the thing was already gliding down to Earth. As the ovoid settled in among the trees, the entire forest burst into flames. A...
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The glowing ovoid plummeted downward, the whole sky screaming like a metallic banshee as the air boiled away from its sides. A supersonic bang broke over the forest, but the thing was already gliding down to Earth. As the ovoid settled in among the trees, the entire forest burst into flames. A thin black line appeared and etched a perfect circle on the side of the metal egg, then thickened into a door. The air was rent by a searing hiss. Slowly, the strange being - soon to be known to all mankind as VOR - began to emerge . . .
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Format: paperback
ISBN:
9780380449668 (0380449668)
Publish date: January 1st 1958
Publisher: Avon Books
Pages no: 159
Edition language: English
I first saw James Blish's name on the shelves of a public library, in the form of a Star Trek novelization. I don't recall that I knew much about Star Trek at the time - it seems unlikely. But I wasn't impressed, didn't borrow the book, and thereafter thought of Blish as 'the Star Trek guy'. I found...
James Blish is my favourite author from the "Golden Age" of science fiction. This could be because I haven't read much by the other authors of the era since adulthood or it could be because he's more interesting to me than most of them, which is why I carried on reading him into adulthood...this me...
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