Kort historia läst på 60-talet eller 70-talet, en astronaut måste komma in i ett främmande skepp och samla tårar / svett? av en utlänning att använda som ett underordnat läkemedel för människor. Utlänningen har någon form av närvaro som påverkar mentala tillstånd hos någon människa nära den.
Detta är Stranger Station av Damon Knight. Det finns en sammanfattning här :
“Stranger Station,” Damon Knight, 1956 – Paul Wesson is stationed on Stranger Station, which will be visited by an overwhelmingly alien consciousness. His only companion is the robot (female) Aunt Jane. His purpose is to establish contact with the alien, in the interest of picking up a longevity serum that the aliens have offered to humanity as a gift. He tries to endure the saturating presence of the alien mind–and the degradation of his ability to communicate with other humans that results from this communion–but he begins to fixate on what he calls Wesson’s Law: “When two alien cultures meet, the stronger must transform the weaker with love or hate.” He comes to suspect that the aliens, having determined that humanity will one day be a space-faring race, are attempting to “adapt” humanity to the aliens in advance, perhaps over the course of centuries. Humans will have been conquered–not by hate, but by love–and Wesson decides that he will use hate to resist.
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