描述
John Sladek explains the theme of the darkly comic stories in this wonderful "The aliens here are human. This book contains no giant flyingsnails or telepathic octopods, no Ganymedean cat-womendressed in silver, no aggressive dugong chiefs roaming thegalaxy in their pulsar-powered yo-yo ships. The aliens here arehuman aliens. Most of them work in ordinary offices, and theydo not commute to work from Proximo Centauri, either. Yet thesehere humans are aliens. Office life attracts them ..."