"Trouble with the Natives" is a

science fiction Science fiction (sometimes shortened to Sci-Fi or SF) is a genre of speculative fiction which typically deals with imaginative and futuristic concepts such as advanced science and technology, space exploration, time travel, parallel unive ...

short story A short story is a piece of prose fiction that typically can be read in one sitting and focuses on a self-contained incident or series of linked incidents, with the intent of evoking a single effect or mood. The short story is one of the oldest ...

by British writer Arthur C. Clarke, first published in 1951. This comic story describes the pains of aliens visiting an English village, as every effort at contact with humans gets frustrated. The story was also published as "The Men in the Flying Saucer". This story has similarities with Clarke's other short stories "

History Lesson "History Lesson" is a science fiction short story by British writer Arthur C. Clarke, first published in 1949 in the magazine '' Startling Stories''. The two-part story speculates on the cooling of the Sun as a doomsday scenario for Eart ...

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Rescue Party "Rescue Party" is a science fiction short story by English writer Arthur C. Clarke, first published in ''Astounding Science Fiction'' in May 1946. It was the first story that he sold, though not the first one published. It was republished in Clark ...

": in all three pieces, aliens draw naive and humorous conclusions about humans from little information.

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* Short stories by Arthur C. Clarke 1951 short stories {{1950s-sf-story-stub