The Alien

A Gripping Novel of Discovery and Conquest in Interstellar Space
by Raymond F. Jones
A Complete ORIGINAL Book , UNABRIDGED
WORLD EDITIONS, Inc. 105 WEST 40th STREET NEW YORK 18, NEW YORK
Copyright 1951 by WORLD EDITIONS, Inc.
PRINTED IN THE U.S.A. THE GUINN CO., Inc. New York 14, N.Y.
Just speculate for a moment on the enormous challenge to archeology when interplanetary flight is possible ... and relics are found of a race extinct for half a million years! A race, incidentally, that was scientifically so far in advance of ours that they held the secret of the restoration of life!
One member of that race can be brought back after 500,000 years of death....
That's the story told by this ORIGINAL book-length novel, which has never before been published! You can expect a muscle-tightening, sweat-producing, mind-prodding adventure in the future when you read it!
Contents
Out beyond the orbit of Mars the Lavoisier wallowed cautiously through the asteroid fields. Aboard the laboratory ship few of the members of the permanent Smithson Asteroidal Expedition were aware that they were in motion. Living in the field one or two years at a time, there was little that they were conscious of except the half-million-year-old culture whose scattered fragments surrounded them on every side.
The only contact with Earth at the moment was the radio link by which Dr. Delmar Underwood was calling Dr. Illia Morov at Terrestrial Medical Central.