{"product_id":"books-the-visitors-by-clifford-d-simak","title":"The Visitors","description":"\u003cb\u003eAn enormous, mysterious box descends upon smalltown Minnesota, spelling trouble for the world, in this classic adventure from a Science Fiction Grand Master.\u003c\/b\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e Forestry student Jerry Conklin is fly-fishing when something huge lands on his car, crushing it into the earth. It looks like a big black box--about fifty feet high and two hundred feet long--and the object stirs up quite a commotion among the townspeople of Lone Pine, Minnesota. One of them even shoots at it--and quickly pays for it with his life. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e Around the country, people scramble to determine what exactly the box is. Is it a machine? Or maybe a sentient being? What does it want? They have no way of knowing. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e Jerry, meanwhile, has firsthand knowledge after the visitor abducts him. Then, just as he discovers it is a living, intelligent creature, it releases him into the darkness of night. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e As Jerry searches for a way back to civilization, more visitors descend upon Earth. They seem harmless enough. Then they begin eating trees, and that's only the beginning . . . \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cb\u003ePraise for\u0026gt;\u003ci\u003eThe Visitors\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e One of the most engaging novels of alien invasion ever written. --\u003ci\u003eLibrary Journal\u003c\/i\u003e","brand":"World of Books ","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":53670733873425,"sku":null,"price":0.0,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0784\/4072\/6801\/files\/9781504079839.jpg?v=1781512420","url":"https:\/\/www.worldofbooks.com\/en-gb\/products\/books-the-visitors-by-clifford-d-simak","provider":"World of Books ","version":"1.0","type":"link"}