Stamped Caution by Raymond Z. Gallun ~ Full Audiobook [scifi]

Stamped Caution by Raymond Z. Gallun audiobook. Genre: scifi When a strange spacecraft slams into a Missouri hillside, the Army moves in fast, sealing the site behind barbed wire and unanswered questions. Colonel Miller and a small team of investigators and scientists pick through scorched metal, radioactive fuel residue, and baffling machinery that looks unsettlingly familiar in places and utterly alien in others. Then they find the most troubling piece of evidence of all: a living Martian infant, sealed in a protective capsule, too fragile to send back and too unprecedented to ignore.Nicknamed Etl, the creature becomes the focus of a long, secret experiment in care, observation, and communication. As Etl grows from a helpless oddity into a curious, thinking being, the team faces escalating pressures from military protocol, scientific ambition, and the fear of what first contact might cost. Is Etl a guest, a specimen, or the opening move in an interplanetary encounter? And if humanity cannot even agree on what he is, how can they hope to meet his people on honest terms?Stamped Caution is a tense, humane classic of first contact science fiction, asking who the real monsters are when the unknown arrives. For ad-free listening try our premium subscription Chapters (Approximate) (00:00:00) Chapter 1 (00:40:48) Chapter 2 Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices