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When a crippled ship from Sirius crashes on the Maine coast, the world greets its passengers with a mix of curiosity and relief. The alien “Ollies” are diminutive, eager to please, and quickly become the ideal domestic helpers people never knew they needed. Their willingness to adopt Earth names and customs makes the integration seem effortless, turning a potential crisis into a convenient new workforce.
In a sleek corporate office, the narrator meets Oll
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Language
en
Duration
~53 minutes (51K characters)
Publisher of text edition
Project Gutenberg
Credits
Produced by Greg Weeks, Mary Meehan and the Online Distributed Proofreading Team at http://www.pgdp.net
Release date
2010-06-15
Rights
Public domain in the USA.
About the author
Winston K. (Winston Kinney) Marks
1915–1979
A mid-century science fiction writer with a knack for brisk plotting and human-scale ideas, this California-born author also spent years in advertising and public relations. His stories appeared in magazines such as The Magazine of Fantasy and Science Fiction, and he later gathered some of his work into collections and novels.
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