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The Anomaly

Jerry Sohl (1971)

SubgenreHard SF
Age groupAdult 18+
Content ratingPG-13
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[Back Cover]"a good and beautiful woman miraculously conceives a creature from another planet.She was wracked with a terrible pain deep inside her. It welled up---and then she felt empty and enormously relieved.'Gilgri,' she said. 'Are you all right?''Yes, Mother.'She felt him at her side, the warmth of him. She opened her eyes to look at him...What she saw was a mass of yellow grapes, blood-flecked and irregular-sized, some as tiny as pinheads, others the size of beans, a compact group, each vesicle attached to a stem which supported others, and each stem leading to a larger stem which ultimately joined two thin fibrous limbs below the clusters.She stared in horror at the pulsating thing. Then she screamed."