Having cursed his mother and his home, he has been punished with eternal homelessness, saddled with immortality, forgetfulness, and an irresistible thousand-year compulsion to wander the Earth. Examining his rather fuzzy memories, he realizes - to his shock - that he is over 150 years old. "The Canvas Bag" - A drifter with only a vague recall of his own past stops in a town and falls in love, which prompts him toward introspection.This story was adapted as the second episode of the BBC television series Out of the Unknown. When the ship lands, the entire crew is accounted for and the incredulous doctor storms back into the ship to search it, only to be ambushed and killed by the remaining alien, which has taken on his own guise. The doctor then sabotages the ship to temporarily strand it in orbit around Earth, going ahead in a shuttle with proof in hand to order a quarantine. He forces one intruder, which can almost perfectly mimic human physiology down to the cellular level, to betray itself and ejects it into space with the cooperation of the expedition commander. The medical officer of an exploratory spaceship returning from Ganymede determines that the crew has been infiltrated by at least one highly malicious shapeshifting alien. Several of the stories have a medical or psychological theme. Nourse, published in 1963 by David McKay. The Counterfeit Man is a collection of science fiction short stories by American writer Alan E.
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