Little Green Men by Peter Cawdron
My rating: 4 of 5 stars

Two men on some unknown planet try to collect some rare chemical samples of fluid and rock like material over there which could give the answer to the origin of life. While they were collecting the samples, one of them Johnson comes into contact with some alien creature and in the process loses one of his hand at a split second. The injured and severely bleeding man is brought back to the space shuttle by the other Michaels with the remote help of his superiors in the shuttle.
Meanwhile another set of astronauts (Jacobs and Hubbard) in the same planet, elsewhere, on the same mission, accidentally come across an abandoned space vehicle “Celeste” and one of them makes a futile attempt to explore the ship, during which he loses his life. While the entire crew in the base were in a shock due to Hubbard’s death, Jacobs struggles to get back to the Base ship leaving behind Hubbard’s body in Celeste. Just then, the crew along with Michaels, witness a shocking streaming video of a green alien trying to break open the helmet of Hubbard captured from the helmet camera of dead Hubbard inside Celeste. While everyone is paralyzed with this video, Hubbard suddenly appears in the Base Ship. This even more shocks the crew who later learn from Johnson that the little green aliens have come inside the Base Ship and are all around.
By now everyone in the Command believes that the duplicate Hubbard in the ship is some kind of alien creature. Michaels is given the task of breaking this mystery. Later, a series of events with the ‘green men’ makes the scientist Michaels research into the aftermaths of his encounter with these aliens and after applying different permutations and combinations of evolution and behavioral theories and principles, he concludes that the entire crew on the Ship are subject to imaginative virtual reality due to their own built-in fears about aliens and their individual little knowledge about them, which is actually a part of communication tool pertaining to extra-terrestrial intelligence.
Michaels finally summarizes that the whole planet on which they landed is a single mass of extra-terrestrial intelligence embedded with complex set of neurons and DNA which have developed a biological defense mechanism in the form of “little green men” to counter the invasion of foreign bodies (humans) on their body (the planet itself). The green men disappear once the fear of being attacked by some alien creatures and the intention to extract valuable minerals from the planet, disappear from the minds of the entire crew, through synchronized counseling by Michaels. Ultimately the Command decides to try and communicate with the planet as a whole considering it as an extra-terrestrial intelligence from the orbit using various satellites.
The book is a simple exhibition of extravagant scientific knowledge and ability to take the reader to the next level of learning about human life and its intrinsic capacity to evolve constantly for betterment in every second of its future.



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