“Mission to a Distant Star”
| Title | “Mission to a Distant Star” |
| Year for Search | 1958 |
| Authors | Long, Frank Belknap [Jr.](1901-94) |
| Secondary Title | Satellite Science Fiction |
| Volume / Edition | 2.3 |
| Pagination | 4-83 |
| Date Published | February 1958 |
| Keywords | Male author, US author |
| Annotation | Aliens, called Scorpions, who appear to be completely human but with much more advanced technology arrive on Earth. Much of the novel is concerned with the difficulties in understanding each other, based in part on their own failure to understand themselves. The Scorpions, it turns out, had as flawed a history as the humans and had thoroughly suppressed it. |
| Additional Publishers | Rpt. as by Frank B[elknap] Long as Mission to a Star. New York: Avalon Books, 1964 |
| Title Note | Rpt. as Mission to a Star |
| Holding Institutions | HRC |
| Author Note | (1901-94) |
| Full Text | 1958 Long, Frank Belknap, [Jr.] (1901-94). “Mission to a Distant Star.” Illus. Satellite Science Fiction 2.3 (February 1958): 4-83. Rpt. as by Frank B[elknap] Long as Mission to a Star. New York: Avalon Books, 1964. HRC Aliens, called Scorpions, who appear to be completely human but with much more advanced technology arrive on Earth. Much of the novel is concerned with the difficulties in understanding each other, based in part on their own failure to understand themselves. The Scorpions, it turns out, had as flawed a history as the humans and had thoroughly suppressed it. |
