It begins with a narrative of aliens approaching earth, the young man who I guess will be Fry's contact being instructed by a young woman. Dull so far. Fry... heh, maybe this is the Futurama guy's grandfather. Oh wait, he's his own grandfather...
p13 - Starts off almost immediately with the same stuff about the bomb. "First to develop it is the first to use it as a WMD" or whatever she says, without bothering to mention that Japan was going to defend their home islands to the last man & woman, & the U.S. knew this because we had intercepted & decoded their messages. Casualties of an invasion were expected to run from a half million to a million U.S. soldiers. So to save the lives of those million US soldiers we dropped 2 bombs to compel Japan's surrender. Also never mentioned is the fact that the Japanese army had raped and murdered their way through Asia (Rape of Nanking anyone? There are photos). They were barbaric in their treatment and/or murder of prisoners. Look it up. So dropping 2 bombs on them was more merciful than they had been to their victims.
To Men of Earth Part 1 - Yikes, who wrote this crap... Why is it even included in the book? Makes it all sound hokey. Maybe that's the purpose... I hope Part 2 is better, Fry's own account of his meeting with Alan... No mention of these spacemen or their ship being inter-dimensional UT's rather than ET's. They travel through space the "regular" way, taking years. Interesting that Meade et al consider Fry or at least Telano an associate & have letters from Telano in the Guardians book. So far this intro doesn't seem compatible in any way with what Meade & the Inner Circle are saying. Maybe the publisher demanded this sort of intro, for the 50's space opera sci-fi fan. Reads like something Ray Palmer would have written.
p21 - These illegal aliens are named Alan and Vera - no funny names this time. What does it mean... I hope the guy's last name isn't Bundy.
p60 - The alien makes excuses for not showing the author the moon while he's in flight. Because of his work Fry would probably know a bogus moon video if he saw one. This flight could possibly be real, although in an earth-made saucer. He never saw his host; speaking through "telepathy." Maybe Alan's a reptilian who hasn't acclimated enough yet to be able to shapeshift into a human. Er....
p69 - Author is told he would have needed a suit to go on the mothership - different atmosphere or something something. More realistic than Adamski's adventures. I wonder if this is a different group of earth-bound (human) saucer builders, perhaps not as far along as Adamski's group; don't have the funds to build the phony mothership installation.
Dull dull dull, not really worth having read.
The 2nd half of this book, the trance communication to Rolf Telano, is covered under A Spacewoman Speaks. Odd that it's not identified as a trance communication but it obviously is after reading the correspondence in Meade Layne's book. Trance communication, as in worthless...
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