This month’s story is based on a comment Steven Hawkins once made: We should probably not try to contact extraterrestrial civilizations. According to Hawkins, our own history has shown that contact between two cultures does not always go well for the people whose land is being visited.

The last two scientists on a distant planet try to reverse the damage done to their culture by a group of suspect Aliens. The scientists eventually succeed but not through the actions they had intended to use.