First published in the November 1942 issue of Astounding Science Fiction, this well-written wartime story, only ever republished in the sixties in a little anthology of van Vogt stories bizarrely and off-puttingly entitled Monsters (and Bug-Eyed Monsters — even worse ! — in the UK edition at the time), tells of confrontation and — yes ! — (eventual) cooperation between a group of isolated whale-fishermen in the northern seas and strange aliens desperately fighting a ferocious enemy that has (…)
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