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Four from Planet 5 is a science fiction novel by Murray Leinster. It was released in 1959 by Fawcett Publications under their Gold Medal Books imprint reference number S937. The novel details the arrival of a spaceship carrying four - seemingly human children from an advanced civilisation – close to a US scientific research base in Antarctica and the events that subsequently unfold. This story appeared in the September 1959 edition of Amazing Science Fiction under the title Long Ago Far Away.

Plot introduction
Soames is an underpaid researcher based at the Gissel Bay research station in Antarctica. Secretly in love with a visiting reporter (Gail Haynes), they and a US W.A.C. Captain (Moggs) set out to investigate the arrival and crash landing of what appears to be a spaceship. Events soon unfold as the US governments attempts to hush up the alien landing are frustrated by the press.

Blurb
The radio and television stations of the world carried the short, terrifying statement: The visitors were telepaths. These children from another time, another planet, were able to read human minds. They were utterly invincible. And they were infinitely dreaded….

In the Pentagon and the Kremlin, leaders were grim with awareness that all military secrets would be exposed…. The overlords of the underworld realised the children could smash their most profitable rackets…. And even ordinary citizens shuddered at the prospect of their shabby sins being found out.

So four small children came to be hated by the entire world. A whole civilisation wanted them dead.