TY  - BOOK
AU  - Wellman,Manly Wade
AU  - Hunter,Mel
TI  - All were monsters
T2  - Produced from Fantastic Universe, May 1955 (Vol. 3, No. 4.)
AV  - PS 
PY  - 2026///
CY  - Salt Lake City, UT
PB  - Project Gutenberg
KW  - Science fiction
KW  - Short stories
KW  - Human-alien encounters -- Fiction
KW  - Earth (Planet) -- Fiction
N1  - Release date is 2026-02-15; Tom Trussel (This file was produced from images generously made available by The Internet Archive); Originally published; New York: King-Size Publications, Inc., 1955
N2  - "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.)
UR  - https://archive.org/details/FantasticUniverseV03n04195505ATLPM/page/n3/mode/2up
UR  - https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/77940
ER  -