Project Gutenberg 2009-11-09 Public domain in the USA. 77 McKimmey, James 1923 2011 McKimmey, James Earl, Jr. Orban, Paul 1896 1974 The Eyes Have It Produced by Greg Weeks, Stephen Blundell and the Online Distributed Proofreading Team at http://www.pgdp.net "The Eyes Have It" by James McKimmey, Jr. is a science fiction short story originally published in the early 1950s. Set on Mars, the narrative explores themes of identity, trust, and deception among a group of high-ranking officials who are tasked with ruling the newly colonized planet. The focal point of the story centers on the fear of a Martian imposter within their ranks, highlighting the tension between the colonizers and the native Martians. The plot unfolds in a tense dinner meeting led by Joseph Heidel, the President of the Superior Council on Mars, who suspects one of his five colleagues is a spy and a Martian in disguise. As the discussion intensifies, Heidel reveals a shocking method to expose the imposter: after adding a preserving solution to their wine that will illuminate the Martian's distinct glowing eyes in darkness, he plans to shoot out the candles one by one. However, the tables turn when Heidel discovers too late that all five of his companions are, in fact, Martians. The story concludes with an ironic twist as Heidel realizes his own peril, surrounded by those he sought to unmask. (This is an automatically generated summary.) en Science fiction Short stories PS Text Science Fiction Browsing: Literature Browsing: Science-Fiction & Fantasy Browsing: Fiction 44764 44773 2024-09-13T05:23:39.686470 2023-09-13T10:18:09.123595 text/html text/html 40840 2009-11-09T10:36:06 text/html; charset=iso-8859-1 312989 2009-11-09T10:36:08 text/html; charset=iso-8859-1 application/zip 358769 2024-09-13T05:23:43.017410 application/epub+zip 357345 2024-09-13T05:23:40.963427 application/epub+zip 60853 2024-09-13T05:23:40.108462 application/epub+zip 518131 2024-09-13T05:23:44.627432 application/x-mobipocket-ebook 510292 2024-09-13T05:23:42.408443 application/x-mobipocket-ebook 143048 2022-09-14T06:19:35.694234 application/x-mobipocket-ebook 38002 37902 2024-09-13T05:23:39.469471 2023-09-13T10:18:08.933542 text/plain; charset=us-ascii text/plain 37914 2009-11-09T10:36:06 text/plain; charset=us-ascii 14449 2009-11-09T10:36:06 text/plain; charset=us-ascii application/zip 18972 2024-09-13T05:23:44.762413 application/rdf+xml 13057 2024-09-13T05:23:40.449436 image/jpeg 3364 2024-09-13T05:23:40.277480 image/jpeg 360519 2024-09-13T05:23:39.700486 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