![]() ![]() “The Visitors” was written during the height of UFO mania, but the story structure and description of events reminds me of The War of the Worlds. His boss, Boris Yanovich Lozovsky, ultimately volunteers for an encounter of the fourth kind by becoming a storaway on the alien’s ship. Sergeyev, an archaeologist, who tells a first person story of meeting an alien, and then later quotes from his boss’s diary left at the landing site which describes a close encounter of the third kind. ![]() It’s a matter-of-fact account by one observer, K. “The Visitors” lacks the originality that we discover in Roadside Picnic, but is still a good story. I’ve lost count of the number we’ve read so far in The Big Book of Science Fiction. “The Visitors” is yet another first contact story. However, the Wikipedia entry for that novel makes no mention of this earlier story about the visitors. ![]() This older story feels like a trial run for the Strugatskys famous 1972 novel Roadside Picnic. “The Visitors” by Arkady and Boris Strugatsky appears to have been written in 1958 according to, but it gives no original Russian publication source. Story #31 of 107: “The Visitors” by Arkady and Boris Strugatsky ![]() Group Read 27: The Big Book of Science Fiction ![]()
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