A science fiction adventure told from the point of watch of aliens who crash-land on the planet and need to assimilate in secret-until their human being cover is blown

Budrys’s final book opens with the statement of a guy discovered electrocuted on suburban teach tracks in Shoreview, Illinois. Neville Sealman were yet another commuter, but after his tragic loss of life, no-one comes ahead to claim his body. And a routine autopsy reveals some troubling physiological anomalies. Then a spaceship can be unearthed in about Hard Getting a New Shirt swamp. It’s the stuff of tabloids-except it’s all accurate.

Years earlier, a starship crash-landed on the planet. Its passengers, human in appearance, had been forced to go their separate methods within an alien globe. No one knows these otherworldly visitors have already been living among the individual race-but now their cover could possibly be blown.

Told by means of a study reconstructed through direct and indirect witness testimony, Hard Getting needs the listener into the thoughts of its 4 protagonists because they have a problem with the far-reaching ramifications of discovery. That is a suspenseful and revelatory book about the elusive, ever-changing character of identity.