Download or read book The Diploids written by Katherine MacLean and published by Gateway. This book was released on 2015-07-30 with total page 158 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Through Katherine MacLean's artistry and imagination you'll soar through space, you'll touch the stars, you'll bask in the glow of other suns...and you will be one with - The long-legged lawyer who suspected that he was a Martian - The boy who became all he characters in his make-believe games - The sewing-circle ladies who took over the world - The alien spacemen adrift in a raindrop - The woman who discovered the terrible secret of immortality There are other stories in this remarkable collection, but merely to describe them might give away their plots, and that is a dastardly crime punishable by indefinite exile on mysterious, fog-shrouded Planet X!