3 to Conquer

Plot

A symbiotic alien intelligence takes over 3 astronauts and returns them to Earth to pave the way for colonisation of the rest of Earths' inhabitants.

The aliens are stumbled across by a toolmaker whom they frame for murder in order to delay their discovery. To save himself from the electric chair - and all other life from personality death and enslavement - he must reveal his most precious secret: that he is a telepath.

Critique

Aside from the obvious adventure of saving the World this book works on several other levels. The hero is utterly believable as a man who is struggling to prevent his talents from turning him into a laboratory specimen of the paranoid and exploitative security forces. This 1957 novel introduces concepts such as symbiosis and distributed intelligence without once dropping into "InfoDump" mode.

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