Project Gutenberg 2009-09-19 Public domain in the USA. 85 Reynolds, Mack 1917 1983 McCord, Guy Reynolds, Dallas McCord Mallory, Mark Freas, Kelly 1922 2005 Freas, Frank Kelly Off Course Reading ease score: 76.8 (7th grade). Fairly easy to read. Produced by Greg Weeks, Stephen Blundell and the Online Distributed Proofreading Team at https://www.pgdp.net "Off Course" by Mack Reynolds is a science fiction novella written in the early 1950s. The story revolves around the unexpected arrival of an alien named Dameri Tass, who lands on Earth in a peculiar spacecraft. Set against a backdrop of governmental intrigue and public anticipation, the narrative explores themes of communication and misunderstanding between vastly different cultures. In the plot, Patrolmen Larry Dermott and Tim Casey initially believe they are encountering a new military aircraft, only to find it inhabited by the colorful and perplexed Dameri Tass. As the alien learns to communicate through a device that allows him to understand human speech, chaos unfolds, leading to a highly anticipated presentation at the United Nations. However, the grand event culminates in confusion as Dameri Tass reveals that he is not an envoy of peace but a collector from another planet. With comical misunderstandings and witty dialogue, the story critiques the human tendency to project expectations onto the unknown, ultimately reflecting on the absurdities of both alien and human cultures. (This is an automatically generated summary.) en Science fiction Short stories PS Text Science Fiction Browsing: Literature Browsing: Science-Fiction & Fantasy Browsing: Fiction 43450 43456 2024-11-16T22:33:20.372300 2023-09-13T08:45:49.640583 text/html text/html 19597 2024-10-24T20:21:52 text/html 86636 2024-11-16T22:33:24.306271 application/epub+zip 85064 2024-11-16T22:33:22.068286 application/epub+zip 84283 2024-11-16T22:33:20.954372 application/epub+zip 142278 2024-11-16T22:33:25.969271 application/x-mobipocket-ebook 134338 2024-11-16T22:33:23.651284 application/x-mobipocket-ebook 105638 2022-09-14T04:10:01.932782 application/x-mobipocket-ebook 36629 2023-09-13T08:45:49.453591 text/plain 16885 2024-10-24T20:21:52 text/plain; charset=us-ascii 36675 2021-01-05T16:40:08 text/plain; charset=us-ascii 17366 2024-11-16T22:33:26.094272 application/rdf+xml 9944 2024-11-16T22:33:21.510299 image/jpeg 2842 2024-11-16T22:33:21.223292 image/jpeg 260929 2021-01-05T16:40:08 application/octet-stream application/zip 14337 2021-01-05T16:40:08 application/octet-stream application/zip 82904 2024-11-16T22:33:20.377306 application/octet-stream application/zip Archives containing the RDF files for *all* our books can be downloaded at https://www.gutenberg.org/wiki/Gutenberg:Feeds#The_Complete_Project_Gutenberg_Catalog en.wikipedia en.wikipedia