{"product_id":"9780486818641","title":"Strangers No More: Tales of Alien Life by Science Fiction Masters Isaac Asimov, Philip José Farmer, Marion Zimmer Bradley and More!","description":"Drawn from the leading pulp magazines of the 1950s — \u003ci\u003eGalaxy, Amazing Science Fiction Stories,\u003c\/i\u003e and \u003ci\u003eFantastic Universe \u003c\/i\u003e— these eight groundbreaking selections offer spellbinding science-fiction tales of encounters with Martians and other extraterrestrials. \"Youth,\" by Isaac Asimov, recounts two friends' discovery of a pair of strange little animals the morning after mysterious thunder without a storm. Philip José Farmer's \"Rastignac the Devil\" tells of a fight against despotism 300 years in the future, and in \"Year of the Big Thaw,\" by Marion Zimmer Bradley, a Connecticut farmer explains why he doesn't know the actual birthplace of his phenomenally gifted son.\u003cbr\u003eOther selections include \"Warrior Race,\" by Robert Sheckley, which focuses on breaking an enemy's spirit; \"Alien Offer,\" by Al Sevcik, concerning a risky chance to save Earth's children; Clifford D. Simak's \"The World That Couldn’t Be,\" in which a farmer must hunt down the unusual creatures destroying his crops; \"Earthmen Bearing Gifts,\" by Fredric Brown, telling of an attempted exchange by the red and blue planets; and Stanley G. Weinbaum's \"A Martian Odyssey,\" a tale that changed the course of science fiction.","brand":"Dover Publications","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":47083388010736,"sku":"9780486818641","price":10.95,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0737\/7593\/9824\/files\/9780486818641_p0.jpg?v=1763709017","url":"https:\/\/shop-qa.barnesandnoble.com\/products\/9780486818641","provider":"Barnes \u0026 Noble (DEV)","version":"1.0","type":"link"}