They Walked Like Men, Clifford D. Simak
They Walked Like Men, Clifford D. Simak
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They Walked Like Men

Author: Clifford D. Simak

Narrator: Josh Innerst

Unabridged: 7 hr 34 min

Format: Digital Audiobook Download

Publisher: Tantor Media

Published: 07/30/2024


Synopsis

A reporter uncovers a terrifying conspiracy, in this thrilling classic from a Science Fiction Grand Master.

After a night out on the town, Parker Graves returns home to life-threatening danger. The science reporter for the local newspaper barely misses a bear trap sitting on his doorstep. Then, the object transforms into what looks like a bowling ball and rolls off into the night all by itself. He begins to obsess over the question—Who put the trap there? And why?

The following day, there is strange news floating around at the newspaper office. Someone with limitless funds is buying up hundreds of homes and businesses, only to close them up and tear them down. People are running out of places to live and to work. Suddenly, Parker finds himself in the middle of a story nobody will believe . . .

Aliens? Dolls that walk like people? Talking dogs? With a little help from a fellow reporter and an unusual visitor, Parker just might be able to put a stop to this mess—if he survives.

About Clifford D. Simak

During his fifty-five-year career, Clifford D. Simak produced some of the most iconic science fiction stories ever written. Born in 1904 on a farm in southwestern Wisconsin, Simak got a job at a small-town newspaper in 1929 and eventually became news editor of the Minneapolis Star-Tribune, writing fiction in his spare time.

Simak was best known for the book City, a reaction to the horrors of World War II, and for his novel Way Station. In 1953 City was awarded the International Fantasy Award, and in following years, Simak won three Hugo Awards and a Nebula Award. In 1977 he became the third Grand Master of the Science Fiction and Fantasy Writers of America, and before his death in 1988, he was named one of three inaugural winners of the Horror Writers Association's Bram Stoker Award for Lifetime Achievement.


Reviews

Goodreads review by Sandy on March 13, 2017

In the history of the science fiction novel, there have been any number of depictions of invaders from other worlds trying to conquer good ol' Mother Earth, be it with brute force and death rays (as in H.G. Wells' seminal novel of 1898, "The War of the Worlds") or more insidiously (as in Jack Finney......more

Goodreads review by Paul on March 03, 2024

The buyers are coming! The buyers are coming! THEY WALKED LIKE MEN is standard 1950s pulp fiction with an imaginative novel twist - a typical alien invasion scenario but the aliens are playing by earth's rules and the weapon is commerce! Parker Graves, a hard drinking journalist, seems to be one of o......more

Goodreads review by Craig on November 19, 2024

They Walked Like Men is an alien invasion story with more of the heart and humor of John Scalzi or Connie Willis than the weird menace feel of Wells or Finney. Shape-changing bowling balls are taking over the Earth legally, by purchasing it one piece at a time. It's up to a romantic pair of reporter......more

Goodreads review by Julie on November 21, 2016

Classic science fiction book that is creepily relevant today. The book features a newspaper reporter who discovers aliens have bought the Earth (legally) out from under mankind, therefore ending mankind. While I see no evidence aliens have done this, we currently have an economic system in place tha......more

Goodreads review by Pablo on April 13, 2021

Hay invasiones a la Tierra tipo "La guerra de los mundos". También están las formas insidiosas como"La invasión de los ultracuerpos". Y luego, a dos cuerpos de distancia está la que se propone aquí, más original es difícil. Mención imprescindible al análisis que se hace del dinero como concepto titán......more