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To Marry Medusa

by Theodore Sturgeon · 1958

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Up until one minute ago, Gurlick was merely a specimen of homo sapiens, and a substandard specimen at that. But now this craven, seething, barely literate drunk has ingested a spore that travelled light years before touching down on our planet. A spore that has in turn ingested Gurlick - turned him into a host for the Medusa, a hive mind so vast that it encompasses the life forms of a billion planets. A hive mind that is determined to ingest Earth as well.

Genre
aliens and first contactaliens and first contactMore like thisLess of thisscience fictionscience fictionMore like thisLess of thishorrorhorrorMore like thisLess of this
Audience
adult
Length
short · 160 pages

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