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| Treatment of Extramundane Aborigines | ||
| Laws for aliens on their own planet. |
Very early expression of this idea.
| It would have been easy to have brought two or three of them down, but McNulty would have crucified me for that. Earth laws were strict about treatment of extramundane aborigines. |
| From Symbiotica,
by Eric Frank Russell. Published by Astounding Science Fiction in 1943 Additional resources -
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See the discussion of relations with extraterrestrial life from Clifford Simak's Ogre (1944).
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