![]() Eventually, they start producing vehicles, superficially resembling human cars but capable of flying using the same unknown principles as the Visitors themselves, and apparently incorporating some element of intelligence, or at least instinct, since they do not crash into things as they move. The Visitors are composed largely of a dense form of cellulose, and they proceed to consume a quantity of trees and plant life in the US. They are apparently unable to communicate with humans in any meaningful way on one occasion a human is taken inside a Visitor, only to be released after experiencing a jumble of confusing colored lights and smells which he did not understand. The nature of the visitors is kept rather mysterious - it's not clear if they are vehicles or living things in their own right. The Visitors are simple black oblong boxes, as large as buildings, which approach from space and orbit the Earth before descending to the United States. The story outlines contact between Earth and the eponymous Visitors, a group of mysterious objects from deep space. ![]() It is based on a similar story of the same name, which was published in serial form in Analog magazine. ![]() The Visitors is a 1980 science fiction novel by American author Clifford D. ![]()
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