All Judgment Fled

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Summary: Which is more alien-a mad extraterrestrial, or a bureaucrat?
Review: By the author of the Sector General series, thisbook details the arrival of a mysterious alienstarship that takes up a solar orbit near that of Mars. Two Apollo-class Earthships carrying a total of six astronauts are launched to begin an investigation - only to be mindlessly attacked again and again by the varied and strange beings aboard the vessel - until one man figures out what these beings are - and where the crew actually is.

Matters are not improved with Earth's "help", since the gov't is far more concerned with their managing the _perception_ of what is going on than they are in find out what _is_ going on.