When The Twerms Came
May, 1972
We now know (little consolation though this provides) that the Twerms were fleeing from their hereditary enemies, the Mucoids, when they first detected earth on their far-ranging omphaloscopes. Thereafter, they reacted with astonishing speed and cunning.In a few weeks of radio monitoring, they accumulated billions of words of electroprint from the satellite newspad services. Miraculous linguists. They swiftly mastered the main terrestrial languages......More than that, they analyzed our culture,...
