The Man Who Fell to Earth

This story is more psychological than science fiction. The main character, Thomas Jerome Newton, is an extraterrestrial from a planet called Anthea. He came to Earth in hopes of designing, manufacturing, and launching several spaceships to return to his home planet. His home planet has become a dese......more

SF Masterworks (2010- series) #81: A story with multiple points of view of an alien invasion, by one alien, Thomas Jerome Newton. What does he want, why does he need to amass huge sums of money? What happened when Newton met alcohol? And what happens to alien surrounded by billions of children, the......more

The Man Who Fell to Earth is my second Walter Tevis novel and unfortunately I didn’t like it anywhere near as much as I did The Queen’s Gambit. Superficially it’s a sci-fi novel: the protagonist is Thomas Jerome Newton, an alien from the planet Anthea (Venus?), who comes to Earth to make enough mone......more

Brilliant. This a deceptively simple story, told in simple, uncomplicated prose, but with unexpected depth and relevance. It might come off as slightly trite now, as with most mid-20th century fiction set in "the near future" (the late 1980s, of all things!), but I'm sure in 1963 it was truly a sign......more