“The Indigenous Revolt”

1953 Wade, T[homas] W. “The Indigenous Revolt.” Futuristic Science Stories (London), no. 13 (1953): 83-109. MH (Houghton)

Invasion of Earth that is initially accepted and, partially as a result of mass hypnosis, seen as no threat. Then, thousands of years in the future, all previous dissidents, having been eliminated, one man, Paul 35, begins to wonder if the tales of humans being in control of the own lives might be true. In that future, people lived in sex-segregated dormitories and, as slaves, worked at jobs that benefitted the invaders. He then meets a young girl, Ida 23, who had also escaped elimination by keeping her thoughts to herself, and they identified others. Paul discovers an antidote (how is unexplained) to the drug that kept them enslaved, and they then worked out a way of administering it to others. Some then escape from the city, and then, through a series of unlikely events, they managed to force the invaders to leave Earth.