Hard Landing Audiobook (Free)

A science fiction experience told from the point of view of aliens who crash-land on the planet and need to assimilate in secret-until their individual cover is blown

Budrys’s final book opens using the record of a man discovered electrocuted on suburban train paths in Shoreview, Illinois. Neville Sealman appeared to be yet another commuter, but after his tragic loss of life, nobody comes ahead to claim his body. And a regular autopsy reveals some disturbing physiological anomalies. Then a spaceship is usually unearthed in about Hard Landing a New Shirt swamp. It is the stuff of tabloids-except it’s all true.

Years earlier, a starship crash-landed on the planet. Its passengers, human in appearance, were forced to move their separate ways within an alien globe. No one knows that these otherworldly guests have already been living among the human being race-but right now their cover could be blown.

Told by means of a study reconstructed through direct and indirect witness testimony, Hard Getting uses the listener in to the minds of its four protagonists as they have a problem with the far-reaching effects of discovery. This is a suspenseful and revelatory book about the elusive, ever-changing character of identity.