Project Gutenberg 2010-02-25 Public domain in the USA. 93 Wilson, Richard 1920 1987 Wilson, Dick Halibut, Edward Ashman, William Ashman Ashman, Bill The Inhabited Produced from Galaxy Science Fiction January 1953. Produced by Sankar Viswanathan, Greg Weeks, and the Online Distributed Proofreading Team at http://www.pgdp.net "The Inhabited" by Richard Wilson is a science fiction novella written in the early 1950s. The story revolves around an extraterrestrial traveler sent to Earth by a dying race, seeking a new world suitable for habitation. The theme explores concepts of identity, control, and the consequences of a stagnant civilization. The narrative follows a nameless alien who becomes a "spy" by inhabiting various beings on Earth, starting with a cat and then progressing through the minds of humans. Through these experiences, the traveler grapples with their inability to control the minds they enter, ultimately finding themselves trapped in the psyche of a mentally ill man named Mersey. As Mersey articulates the dire state of his original civilization, the alien realizes that their race's survival might come at a cost that compromises their identity. The story culminates in a poignant struggle between the needs of the traveler’s people and the realities of life on Earth, leaving readers to ponder the implications of empathy, existence, and the quest for a new home. (This is an automatically generated summary.) Reading ease score: 75.1 (7th grade). Fairly easy to read. en Science fiction Short stories Human-alien encounters -- Fiction PS Text Category: Science-Fiction & Fantasy 70608 2025-07-13T04:11:33.255529 text/html 66621 2010-02-25T10:09:06 text/html 252518 2025-07-13T04:11:37.113503 application/epub+zip 252295 2025-07-13T04:11:34.848512 application/epub+zip 91928 2025-07-13T04:11:33.828494 application/epub+zip 324657 2025-07-13T04:11:38.762459 application/x-mobipocket-ebook 316930 2025-07-13T04:11:36.505611 application/x-mobipocket-ebook 129727 2022-09-14T11:39:06.911049 application/x-mobipocket-ebook 61717 2025-07-13T04:11:32.942504 text/plain; charset=us-ascii 61618 2010-02-25T10:09:06 text/plain; charset=us-ascii 19715 2025-07-13T04:11:38.900481 application/rdf+xml 10718 2025-07-13T04:11:34.312520 image/jpeg 3053 2025-07-13T04:11:34.068492 image/jpeg 204628 2010-02-25T10:09:08 application/octet-stream application/zip 23643 2010-02-25T10:09:08 application/octet-stream application/zip 281479 2025-07-13T04:11:33.291515 application/octet-stream application/zip Archives containing the RDF files for *all* our books can be downloaded at https://book.klll.cc/wiki/Gutenberg:Feeds#The_Complete_Project_Gutenberg_Catalog en.wikipedia