Wellman, Manly Wade,  1903-1986 <br/><br/>
All were monsters 

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 - Produced from Fantastic Universe, May 1955 (Vol. 3, No. 4.) .
 - Produced from Fantastic Universe, May 1955 (Vol. 3, No. 4.) .
<br/><br/> Release date is 2026-02-15 
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<br/><br/> "All were monsters by Manly Wade Wellman" is a science fiction short story written in the mid-20th century. The tale centers on first contact between a human and an alien scout, using that encounter to explore humanity’s fragility and an outsider’s shock at Earth’s abundant animal life.<br/><br/>A solitary farmer is visited by Provvorr, a telepathic visitor who arrives in a ship tailored to match human expectations. Provvorr demonstrates advanced abilities—transmuting a fork to gold, reviving a crushed moth—and explains he is scouting a future colony, assuming humans will soon destroy themselves. But when he encounters the farmer’s dog, Skip, and cat, Oscar, he panics: on his world there are no other animals, and Earth’s creatures are unreadable, uncontrollable “monsters” to him. Repelled by this teeming biodiversity, he abandons the colonization plan. Before departing, he shares a strikingly simple way to avert humanity’s self-destruction—left tantalizingly undisclosed—so the farmer can pass it to the United Nations. (This is an automatically generated summary.) 
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<br/><br/><label>Subjects--Index Terms: </label>Science fiction Short stories Human-alien encounters -- Fiction Earth (Planet) -- Fiction 
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