Eric C. Williams

Cerean n.	1965 E. C. Williams Silent Ship in New Worlds SF July 71 Grasp came out with his arms waving, and shouting ‘Forward! Charge! Kill them all!’ Poor fleas! They had no conception of the vastness of our world and the fantastic density of our microbe population. [...] It was hopeless. To a man, the Cereans were wiped out. The blood transfusions washed out their corpses. Our indigenous bacteria swarmed through Grasp’s body in full, natural possession.