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Visit to a Small Planet 

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Gore VidalVisit to a Small Planet (1957)
A novel by Gore Vidal

 
The story, as told by the New York News, "is an imaginative affair in which an alien comes from another planet to do a bit of sightseeing and to see or start a war. He thinks he has arrived just in time for the Civil War, which he expects will be jolly, but he has misjudged his landing and gets here in 1957. He tries to make the best of it. 'Isn't hydrogen fun?' he gurgles, as he hears about modern warfare. Where he comes from, civilization has gone way beyond what we have here. They don't don't have babies anymore, for instance, he explains. This interplanetary visitor, who can read human minds, and even has an enchanting conversation with a Siamese cat, plops himself into an average community whose population includes an average general, an average boy and girl in love, and an average TV newscaster." Since he missed the Civil War, the visitor from Outer Space decides to start his own. One his world, emotions were given up to make room for intellectual development, and he cannot understand why his hosts aren't willing to die for his amusement.

 
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January 2004 : Hardback
Title: THE NARROWS
Author(s): MICHAEL CONNELLY
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October 1997 : Hardback
Title: Visit to a Small Planet
Author(s): Gore Vidal
ISBN: 0-8488-2040-1 / 978-0-8488-2040-4 (USA edition)
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1960 : Hardback
Title: Visit to a Small Planet
Author(s): Gore Vidal
Publisher: Little, Brown & Co.
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1958 : Hardback
Title: Visit To A Small Planet
Author(s): Gore Vidal
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1957 : Hardback
Title: Visit to a Small Planet
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1956 : Hardback
Title: VISIT TO A SMALL PLANET
Author(s): Gore Vidal
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1999 : Paperback
Title: Visit to a Small Planet (A Play)
Author(s): Gore Vidal
Publisher: S. French
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January 1998 : Paperback
Cover of ISBN: 0822212110Title: Visit to a Small Planet.
Author(s): Gore Vidal, Gore Vidal
ISBN: 0-8222-1211-0 / 978-0-8222-1211-9 (USA edition)
Publisher: Dramatists Play Service, Inc.
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January 1960 : Paperback
Title: Visit To A Small Planet
Author(s): Gore Vidal
Publisher: Signet, 1960
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1959 : Paperback
Title: Visit to a Small Planet
Author(s): Gore Vidal
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January 1958 : Paperback
Title: Visit to a Small Planet
Author(s): Gore Vidal
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1956 : Paperback
Title: Visit to a Small Planet
Author(s): Gore Vidal
Publisher: The New American Library
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January 1960 : Unknown
Title: Visit to a Small Planet
Author(s): Gore Vidal
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