Title: Vanguard from Alpha
Title Record # 122
Author: Brian W. Aldiss
Date: 1959-10-00
Type: SHORTFICTION
Length: novella
Series: The Year Before Yesterday
Language: English
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Author: Brian W. Aldiss
Date: 1959-10-00
Type: SHORTFICTION
Length: novella
Series: The Year Before Yesterday
Language: English
Note: According to Clute/Nicholls, this novella was revised when it was included in the "Equator" collection. Eventually incorporated into "The Year Before Yesterday" / "Cracken at Critical" (1987).
Synopsis: An alien generation ship from Alpha Centauri arrives on Earth seeking a place to recover from their voyage, but their true motives are mysterious enough that the United Nations must resort to espionage.
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- Review by Frederik Pohl (1959) in If, November 1959
- Review by Damon Knight (1959) in The Magazine of Fantasy and Science Fiction, December 1959
- Review by P. Schuyler Miller (1960) in Astounding/Analog Science Fact & Fiction, May 1960