From: kerilotion@udm.sn   
      
   On Sat, 16 Feb 2008 20:37:10 -0500, "njp"    
   wrote:   
      
   >   
   >> I'd read (in a book) a really good story where aliens arrive on earth   
   >> with plans to conquer. ... The aliens are   
   >> justifiably freaked out over what they've released into the galaxy.   
   >   
   >As alien invastion stories go, I'm rather more fond of Bradbury's "The   
   >Concrete Mixer" and some story, from Erik Frank Russell, if memory serves,   
   >involving a couple of giant snail aliens who touch down and pull off an   
   >interesting sleight-of-hand on the people of Earth. Can't remember the name   
   >of the story.   
   >   
   >njp   
      
   I love John Wyndham's alien invasion books.  He is best known for The   
   Day of the Triffids, but In "The Kracken Wakes" the aliens merely drop   
   into the sea and raise the temperature a few degrees.   Hilarity   
   ensues.   
      
   Keri   
      
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