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Encounter of Another Kind [MultiFormat]
eBook by David Langford
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eBook Category: Science Fiction
eBook Description: Darkly witty revelation of what lies behind a UFO abduction experience which is not at all what it seems--with a nasty sting (or probe) in the tail.
eBook Publisher: Fictionwise.com, Published: Interzone 54, 1991
Fictionwise Release Date: June 2004
Available eBook Formats [MultiFormat - What's this?]: Adobe Acrobat (PDF) [47 KB], eReader (PDB) [23 KB], Palm Doc (PDB) [9 KB], Rocket/REB1100 (RB) [9 KB], Microsoft Reader (LIT) [61 KB] - PocketPC 1.0+ Compatible, Franklin eBookMan (FUB) [80 KB], hiebook (KML) [28 KB], Sony Reader (LRF) [35 KB], iSilo (PDB) [7 KB], Mobipocket (PRC) [10 KB], Kindle Compatible (MOBI) [37 KB], OEBFF Format (IMP) [16 KB]
Words: 2506 Reading time: 7-10 min.
Microsoft Reader (LIT) Format: Printing DISABLED, Read-Aloud ENABLED
Adobe Acrobat (PDF) Format: Printing DISABLED, Read-Aloud ENABLED All Other formats: Printing DISABLED, Read-aloud DISABLED

At the time it seemed a good night for our work. A thin watery fuzz, half mist and half rain, was blurring the moon and had made haloes round the lights of the main road. This dark lane was still puddled from afternoon showers, so that when our van tilted and bumped along it the headlight reflections rose in silent luminous bubbles through the trees. Even I took a long moment to identify them. The right frame of mind is so important.
This was a high-activity area of Wiltshire, where sightings came regularly with the seasons. It was crop circle country too, but I had always been uneasy about that work: it's too showy and physical, and too many fanciful hoaxers had spoilt the impact of our own real, authorized creations. But the fertile location was just happenstance. The man Glass lived close at hand, and was known to take this lane from Pewsey village to his house. Tonight he had been delivering one of his lying, offensive lectures, and the driving time from London...
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