Our Children's Children

If there weren't so many of the world's new visitors, nobody would believe their outrageous claim. That they came from the future. But they arrive in their millions - a constant stream of people escaping into the past to flee an invasion of murderously savage aliens: people to whom the world now has a responsibility, for they are our children's children.

The refugees' time-tunnels, the one-way passages that conduct them to a temporary haven on earth, are supposedly secure and adequately guarded by contemporary weapons. But when the alien monsters breach their defences the world is in for an orgy of indiscriminate warfare and slaughter...

FantasyScience fiction

RELEASED1991

PUBLISHERMandarin

LENGTH185

LANGUAGEEN

Clifford D. SimakAmerican writer, journalist (1904-1988)

Clifford Donald Simak (August 3, 1904 – April 25, 1988) was an American science fiction writer. He won three Hugo Awards and one Nebula Award.The Science Fiction Writers of America made him its third SFWA Grand Master,[4] and the Horror Writers Association made him one of three inaugural winners of the Bram Stoker Award for Lifetime Achievement.[5] He is associated with the pastoral science fiction subgenre.

Our Children's Children

by Clifford D. Simak

If there weren't so many of the world's new visitors, nobody would believe their outrageous claim. That they came from the future. But they arrive in their millions - a constant stream of people escaping into the past to flee an invasion of murderously savage aliens: people to whom the world now has a responsibility, for they are our children's children.

The refugees' time-tunnels, the one-way passages that conduct them to a temporary haven on earth, are supposedly secure and adequately guarded by contemporary weapons. But when the alien monsters breach their defences the world is in for an orgy of indiscriminate warfare and slaughter...

FantasyScience fiction

RELEASED1991

PUBLISHERMandarin

LENGTH185

LANGUAGEEN

Clifford D. SimakAmerican writer, journalist (1904-1988)

Clifford Donald Simak (August 3, 1904 – April 25, 1988) was an American science fiction writer. He won three Hugo Awards and one Nebula Award.The Science Fiction Writers of America made him its third SFWA Grand Master,[4] and the Horror Writers Association made him one of three inaugural winners of the Bram Stoker Award for Lifetime Achievement.[5] He is associated with the pastoral science fiction subgenre.