Hostess (short story)

Hostess (short story)

Hostess is a science fiction short story by Isaac Asimov. It was first published in the May 1951 issue of "Galaxy" and reprinted in the 1969 collection "Nightfall and Other Stories ".

Plot summary

Humanity has spread out into the Galaxy and made contact with four other intelligent non-human races. Harg Tholan, a medical doctor and researcher from the planet known as "Hawkin's Planet" arrives on Earth and visits Rose Smollett, a research biologist and her husband Drake, ostensibly a police officer but in fact an agent of a secret government organisation.

Dr Tholan is researching a disease known as "Inhibition Death", unknown on Earth, and reveals his theory that a sixth parasitic non-physical intelligence exists that lives in the minds of the humans.

Drake, whose bureau already knows about this disease and the plans of the Hawkinsites, kills Tholan and disappears with the body.


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