Scaffy Wagon — Tony Harmsworth

From where had it come? This 'old school SciFi' tells of the first ever space junk elimination. It encounters a badly damaged alien artefact in low-earth orbit. Who could have made it? What was its purpose? NASA, ESA & Roscosmos impose secrecy. Is it the first alien object found? Are the rumours about previous encounters true after all? Planet Earth has existed for four and a half billion years. The chance of our civilisation making contact with another is unimaginably tiny. If we sent a message to a neighbour today it could take years to arrive. Would the neighbour be home? Their civilisation may not begin for millions of years or might have died a billion years previously. To make contact, not only does the neighbour have to be intelligent and technologically advanced, but they also need to have a civilisation at the same time as us. The VISITOR TRILOGY tells of just such a situation. And if a visitor does call, do we really want to invite them into our home?