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A Cry for Help

By: Robert Silverberg
Narrated by: Mike Vendetti
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The strange beings on World Nine, System XG, could enter into a man's brain at will and make certain changes in the cells, changes to suit their ruthless purpose. Visit this strange planet with award-winning narrator Mike Vendetti, as he reads A Cry for Help by Robert Silverberg.

Public Domain (P)2015 Mike Vendetti Science Fiction Fiction
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Four men in the Terran Exploration Force respond to what appears to be a human cry for help on an alien jungle planet. Instead, they encounter a telepathic alien race known as the Methi who alter their minds so that they cannot ever tell anyone about the Methi civilization or their 2000 colonized worlds.
 
This forgotten 1959 short story is an example of Silverberg's pulp-adventure sci-fi output during that era. He wrote several hundred of them in this same vein. It is passing entertainment but certainly not one of his best. This story appeared in the April issue of Super-Science Fiction. It has never to my knowledge been included in any anthology or collected into a Silverberg short story collection.
 
I listened to the 2015 audiobook recording read by Mike Vendetti.

Silverberg's 1950's era pulp-adventure sci-fi

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