The Cosmic Rape Author:Theodore Sturgeon It came from outer space . . . — The Medusa, the intergalactic conqueror, a hive-like being with a consuming appetite to absorb all life in the universe. — Now the Medusa had reached Earth. It had taken control of its first human being. Through him it would possess all his fellows. — But there was one thing the Medusa had not recko... more »ned on. One tiny factor in the complex human equation. A desperate last chance for the stubborn and independent creature known as Man to save himself . . .« less