Rescue Party
by Arthur C. Clarke
Only a smidgen of unimportant time phenomena in the first paragraph of this ominous first
contact story.
— Michael Main
But Alveron and his kind had been lords of the Universe since the dawn of history, since
that far distant age when the Time Barrier had been folded round the cosmos by the
unknown powers that lay beyond the Beginning.
“Rescue Party” by Arthur C. Clarke, Astounding Science Fiction, May 1946.