Language English Publication date August 1951 Country United Kingdom | Published in Lilliput Originally published August 1951 Genre Science Fiction | |
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"Trouble with the Natives" is a science fiction short story by Arthur C. Clarke, first published in 1951. This comic story describes the pains of aliens visiting an English village, as every effort at contact with humans gets frustrated. The story was also published as "The Men in the Flying Saucer".
This story has similarities with History Lesson & Rescue Party - in all three stories, aliens draw naive & humorous conclusions about humans from little information.
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