02457cam a22003853u 4500 77940 UtSlPG 20260610134815.0 m cr n 260607r20261955utu|||||o|||||||||||||| d UtSlPG en iso639-1 PS Wellman, Manly Wade, 1903-1986 All were monsters Salt Lake City, UT : Project Gutenberg, 2026 1 online resource : multiple file formats text txt rdacontent computer c rdamedia online resource cr rdacarrier Produced from Fantastic Universe, May 1955 (Vol. 3, No. 4.) Release date is 2026-02-15 Tom Trussel (This file was produced from images generously made available by The Internet Archive) "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. 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.) Originally published: New York: King-Size Publications, Inc., 1955 Science fiction Short stories Human-alien encounters -- Fiction Earth (Planet) -- Fiction Hunter, Mel, 1927-2004 Produced from Fantastic Universe, May 1955 (Vol. 3, No. 4.) https://archive.org/details/FantasticUniverseV03n04195505ATLPM/page/n3/mode/2up https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/77940 118660 118660