The Visitors Author:Clifford Simak A close encounter of the most amazing kind ...Some of them, having set down, stayed where they were. Some, after a time, floated into the air and set abouth their observations. They cruised back and forth over industrial plants, they circled and recircled cities, they made sweeps at vast stretches of farmlands. Others sought out forests and sett... more »led down to eat. They gobbled up a number of lumberyards in the St Louis area, three of them landed in a parking lot, ate a dozon or so cars, and then took off. They did little actual harm. Most people with whom they came in contact were only marginally inconvenienced, no one was killed. The highway accidents, few of them more than fender-benders, fell off as motorists became accustomed to the sight of the great black boxes floating in the sky, coming at last to pay but slight attention to them. The visitors qualified as first-class nuisances ...« less