Trouble with the Natives

Trouble with the Natives

Infobox short story

name = Superiority
author = Arthur C. Clarke
country = United Kingdom
language = English
genre = Science fiction
published_in = Lilliput
publication_type =
publisher =
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pub_date = August 1951

"Trouble with the Natives" is a science fiction short story by 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 History Lesson & Rescue Party - in all three stories, aliens draw naive & humorous conclusions about humans from little information.


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