The Trouble With Humans, Christopher Anvil
The Trouble With Humans, Christopher Anvil
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The Trouble With Humans

Author: Christopher Anvil, Eric Flint

Narrator: Paul Heitsch

Unabridged: 13 hr 45 min

Format: Digital Audiobook Download

Publisher: Tantor Media

Published: 07/07/2020


Synopsis

Humans—there's no understanding them, and no dealing with them either. Or even their planet. Pity the poor aliens, whose shape-changing ability should let them take over the planet Earth before the humans even know they're there—if it weren't for all that omnipresent pollution.

Or consider another set of invaders, from a planet where the weather is always mild and the changing of the seasons is hardly noticeable. They land in force and their weapons are more powerful than those of the primitive humans—but they've never before had to deal with below-zero temperatures, flash floods or tornadoes—not to mention volcanoes.

Then there were the aliens who noticed how belligerent humans were, and gave them the "gift" of TV-like devices which would show anything anywhere on Earth, which was sure to lead to war. Imagine how surprised the aliens were when the humans took the gadgets apart, improved them, and started spying on everything the aliens were up to, all over the galaxy. Humans don't make sense, they don't fight fair, and they're making aliens throughout interstellar space think seriously about pulling up stakes and moving to another galaxy!

About Christopher Anvil

Christopher Anvil was a pseudonym used by author Harry C. Crosby. For two decades he had numerous stories in the leading science fiction magazines, including Analog, where he consistently ranked high in the reader's polls, and had several stories nominated for Hugo and Nebula awards. Anvil's books include Pandora's Legions, Interstellar Patrol, Interstellar Patrol II: The Federation of Humanity, The Trouble with Aliens, The Trouble with Humans, War Games, and Rx for Chaos.


Reviews

We From Arcturus - 3 stars, short and mildly amusing. The Underhandler - 1 star, long and boring. Duel to the Death - 1 star, it had some interesting ideas, but, I did not get the ending; read it several times, still didn't get it. Shotgun wedding - 3 stars, reality tv as it should never be. The Law Bre......more

Goodreads review by Lee

Great anthology of sci fi stories by author up until now unknown to me. Some of the stories go back several decades, and there is an continuing theme of humans vs. Martians; civilized vs. uncivilized, but it is not always clear at the start which side is which. Some serious issues are raised (loyalt......more

Goodreads review by David

While some of these stories are OK taken singly, reading one story after another about how aliens fail to beat humanity because aliens are morons gets a little monotonous.......more