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The Humans

Matt Haig

20131 pagesabout 5–10 minutes
2013
first published
  • 2013Simon & Schuster · ENGISBN 9781476727929
  • 2013Simon & Schuster · ENGISBN 9781476737850
  • 2013Canongate Books · ENGISBN 9780857868770
  • 2013Simon & Schuster · 282 pages · ENGISBN 9781476727912
  • 2014Recorded Books, Inc. and Blackstone Publishing · 1 pagesISBN 9781664624276

When an extraterrestrial arrives on Earth, his first impressions of humans are less than positive. Taking the form of Professor Andrew Martin at Cambridge University, the visitor is eager to complete his task and hurry back to his own utopian planet. Disgusted by the way humans look, what they eat, their capacity for murder and war, he is equally baffled by the concepts of love and family. But as time goes on, he starts to reconsider.

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