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The visitors / Clifford D. Simak

When massive, box-like extraterrestrial beings land in rural Minnesota and consume natural resources, a witness discovers they are intelligent. While the visitors offer advanced gifts in exchange, their presence threatens to destabilise human civilisation.
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