The Cosmic Rape
By: by Theodore Sturgeon.
Publisher: Dell Publishing Co.
Published: 1977
Place of publication: New York, NY
Language: eng
Format: Paperback
Number of pages: 160
ISBN-13: 9780671814144
Genres: Science Fiction.
Other titles: To Marry Medusa
Description: It came from outer space: the Medusa, the inter-galactic conqueror, a hive-like being with a consuming appetite to absorb all life in the universe.  Now the Medusa had reached Earth.  It had taken control of its first human being.  Through him it would possess all his fellows.  But there was one thing the Medusa had not reckoned on.  One tiny factor in the complex human equation.  A desperate last chance for the stubborn and independent creature known as Man to save himself...
Notes: A shorter version of this story appeared in Galaxy Science Fiction magazine under the title: To Marry Medusa.
Dell #1512.
Cover art by Paul Lehr.