A new edition of Edward Ashpole’s Where is Everybody? (Sigma, £6.95,
ISBN 1 85058 576 8) brings us up-to-date on how the search for extraterrestrials
is going. Those extrasolar planets are there, plus much more. Roy Herbert,
reviewing the earlier edition, enjoyed the way Ashpole sent the saucers and
their humanoid crews of kidnappers flying, but found it difficult to discover
what the author really thinks about UFOs.
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