The Alien

Raymond F. Jones

Language: English

Published: Jan 2, 1951

Description:

Speculate for a moment on the enormous challenge to archaeology when interplanetary travel is possible . . . and relics are found of a race extinct for half a million years! A race that was so far in advance of ours that they held the secret of life restoration! What happens when a member of that race is brought back after 500,000 years of death . . .

A scourge alive.
There lived on Mars, 500,000 years ago, a race so intelligent, so superior to ours, that they knew the secret of everlasting life. They chose instead - to have one man come back to life exactly 500,000 years after his death!
His reappearance in the Galaxy World was enough to set planet against planet, ideology against ideology, man against man, and life against death.