Terrene n.

The story itself [sc. ‘The Onslaught from Venus’ by Philip Francis Nowlan, as ‘Frank Phillips’] was fine, whoever the author. So different from usual invasion stories, it presents the Terrenes well equipped and able to cope with the outsiders; instead of having them sit uselessly by waiting for a kind providence and a kind author to save them.

Lukas and his companions saw that the inhabitants of Fomalhaut Three were almost uniformly tall—each of them about two inches higher than Alsdorf, who was the tallest of the terrenes.

The flora, fauna and general countryside are completely alien, and the day is longer than our own by an order of magnitude. Yet these creatures have a written language basically similar to our own, indeed it appears to closely resemble the archaic forms of Terrene.

[I]t is, in the end, a tale which utterly refuses the sf it wears the clothes of; or, perhaps more productively, it might be said that The Harvest is an example—one of the clearest yet—of an sf genre which has begun to adapt itself to the futures which surround us, bearing cargo to the terrenes.

Uncontrolled, Hirondelle goes into a glide, loses altitude, and spirals down to a nudge landing in the soft moondust of the farther shore of the Lake of Dreams. The Selenites swarm aboard, spinning dream-silk from their spinnerets. The crew are trussed within minutes. Five frail Selenites to one Terrene, the Members of the Anglo-French Expedition to the Moon are borne into the heart of the Temple of Dreams.