Like Banquo's Ghost

Publication date: 
1968-08
Publication type: 
Short Story
Published: 
Worlds of If, September 1968
Opus No.: 
33
Setting: 
Stand Alone
Characters: 
unnamed protagonist; Butch
Summary: 

 A short story about the first meeting between humanity and an alien race that destroys Earth's slower-than-light probe, and then arrives for a visit in faster-than-light ships. Is it the dawn of a new era or the first shot in the War of the Worlds?

 

Notes: 

stand-alone

Reprints: 

semiprozine, Alternities, Autumn/Winter 1980; Shape of Space, The; Convergent Series