The Visitors
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3.4 • 17 Ratings
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- $7.99
Publisher Description
An enormous, mysterious box descends upon smalltown Minnesota, spelling trouble for the world, in this classic adventure from a Science Fiction Grand Master.
Forestry student Jerry Conklin is fly-fishing when something huge lands on his car, crushing it into the earth. It looks like a big black box—about fifty feet high and two hundred feet long—and the object stirs up quite a commotion among the townspeople of Lone Pine, Minnesota. One of them even shoots at it—and quickly pays for it with his life.
Around the country, people scramble to determine what exactly the box is. Is it a machine? Or maybe a sentient being? What does it want? They have no way of knowing.
Jerry, meanwhile, has firsthand knowledge after the visitor abducts him. Then, just as he discovers it is a living, intelligent creature, it releases him into the darkness of night.
As Jerry searches for a way back to civilization, more visitors descend upon Earth. They seem harmless enough. Then they begin eating trees, and that’s only the beginning . . .
Praise for The Visitors
“One of the most engaging novels of alien invasion ever written.” —Library Journal
Customer Reviews
Takes a while, yet builds up to a compelling read
I have a few quibbles with The Visitors - most of the characters and the dialogue is pretty wooden, the writing is very basic - and yet the story is absolutely fantastic and the build up to the ending had me on the edge of my seat! And, like any good science fiction writer, Simak has some great speculative concepts on aliens and the impacts on humanity that are top-notch. I highly recommend The Visitors!
The Visitors
Compared to the sci-fi writers we have today this book felt a bit elementary and idealistic . I find it difficult to consider it a classic.