Cosmic Encounter
Time had collapsed. For a brief instant, like hte sudden reopening of a
disused mineshaft forty million years deep. The strata of millennia
upon millennia had compressed, bearing their fossils of the future,
impacted, and pressed down irresistible on one spot. AD 1704.
The
ship Orinda, outward bound on piracy, dipped through the caribbian
swell. Intent only on its murderous rendezvous with a fat ripe
merchantman, it noticed nothing. Never saw the man from the future who
climbed aboard. Only saw too late the alien bulk of the Lantellan
battlecraft that loomed and filled the eastern horizon. Could not know
that Lantella was at war and would live in a universe of total
hostility.
But, uncomprehending and terrified, did see the boarding craft that was skimmingtowards them...
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A. E. van Vogt
Alfred Elton van Vogt (1912–2000) was a Canadian-born science fiction author. He was considered to be one of the most prolific, yet complex, science fiction writers of the mid-twentieth century.
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