02457cam a22003853u 450000100060000000300070000600500170001300600020003000700050003200800410003704000110007804100170008905000070010610000360011324500220014926400510017130000470022233600260026933700260029533800360032149000640035750000310042150801030045252011000055553400720165565300200172765300180174765300380176565300300180370000280183383000640186185600840192585600430200999900190205277940UtSlPG20260610134815.0mcr n260607r20261955utu|||||o|||||||||||||| d  aUtSlPG 7aen2iso639-1 4aPS1 aWellman, Manly Wade,d1903-198610aAll were monsters 1aSalt Lake City, UT :bProject Gutenberg,c2026  a1 online resource :bmultiple file formats  atextbtxt2rdacontent  acomputerbc2rdamedia  aonline resourcebcr2rdacarrier1 aProduced from Fantastic Universe, May 1955 (Vol. 3, No. 4.)  aRelease date is 2026-02-15  aTom Trussel (This file was produced from images generously made available by The Internet Archive)  a"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.)  pOriginally published:cNew York: King-Size Publications, Inc., 1955  aScience fiction  aShort stories  aHuman-alien encounters -- Fiction  aEarth (Planet) -- Fiction1 aHunter, Mel,d1927-2004 0aProduced from Fantastic Universe, May 1955 (Vol. 3, No. 4.)4 uhttps://archive.org/details/FantasticUniverseV03n04195505ATLPM/page/n3/mode/2up40uhttps://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/77940  c118660d118660