I hope that the interest – and perhaps controversy – that this book will generate will not centre on the brief notes at the end of the book where I offer some personal thoughts on the genesis of the messages. Despite the necessity of selecting from the communications I feel that this book is faithful to the events it portrays. It is therefore not a scientific document, but it does contain observations at first hand from a number of reliable persons. They are described in the everyday context in which they occurred. This book is a record of a most unusual set of communications. No part of this text may be reproduced, transmitted, downloaded, decompiled, reverse engineered, or stored in or introduced into any information storage retrieval system, in any form or by any means, whether electronic or mechanical, now known or hereinafter invented, without the express written permission of HarperCollins e-books.įind out about HarperCollins and the environment at Source ISBN: 9780008292645Įbook Edition © December 2017 ISBN: 9780008292645Īppendix: the Language of the Messages by Peter Trinder By payment of the required fees, you have been granted the nonexclusive, non-transferable right to access and read the text of this e-book on screen. Poem XXVI ‘This is the first thing’ from The North Ship by Philip Larkin reprinted by permission of Faber & Faber Ltd.Īll rights reserved under International and Pan-American Copyright Conventions. Ken Webster asserts the moral right to be identified as the author of this work Cover layout design © HarperCollinsPublishers 2017Ī catalogue record of this book is available from the British Library