AboutSue Kayton Expertise Engineer who has read thousands of science fiction books and short stories. Can recommend stories on specific subjects and comment on technical feasibility. Especially good at older out-of-print books and authors.
Expert: Sue Kayton Date: 6/27/2008 Subject: Science fiction book from the 1950s or 1960s
Question My stepfather is looking for the name of a book that he started reading on his way to boot camp in the 1960s but was taken away by the drill sargeant before he could finish it! The book started out with a man walking across the desert. He sees an object fall from the sky and crash into the Earth. He makes his way to the site and looks down inside the object only to see some sort of creature that has the exact same face that the man does.
Answer I remember reading the story, but not the title. As I recall, it appeared in an anthology titled "The Year's Best SF - 19xx". (xx is the year number so the title would be, for instance, The Year's Best SF - 1967.) You'd just need to find some of these old paperbacks and read them, to see which year it was. As I recall it was mid to late 1960s. Good luck finding it!
