Eric Frank Russell ritorna con queste sue sentinelle degli spazi cosmici e dell’umanit? che ormai dilaga per tutta la Galassia. ? un romanzo di enigmatiche visioni sideree, di “presenze”inconoscibili, di vaghe minacce provenienti dalle profondit? ignorate dello spazio. Ed ? il romanzo di David Raven, naturalmente, il telepatico agente segreto della Triade Planetaria, e della bellissima Leina. La coppia ha in comune, tra molte altre cose, un segreto soprannaturale; e grazie ai poteri straordinari di cui ? dotata, vigila sull’umanit?. Sono David e Leina, le sentinelle del Cielo. Insieme, scrutano il cielo, vigili, in agguato, faccia alle stelle....
Originally published as “The Space Willies” in 1958. A slightly extended version of it was published a year later under the title “Next of Kin”.This is a comic story of a military misfit who successfully conducts a one-man psychological warfare operation against an alien race and its allies, with whom humans and allied races are at war.
The war had been going for nearly a year. Earth had the better weapons, but the Sirian Empire had the advantage in personnel and equipment. Earth needed an edge, which was where James Mowry came in. Intensively trained and his appearance surgically altered, James is to be an irritant to the enemy.
