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Editor's note: We've not yet had time to find out anything about Tony Morphett. For now, it's enough to know that he has written a story about garbage disposal, dead cats, a hard nosed and amiable engineer named Rafferty, a planet orbiting Vega, and that is one of the funniest stories of first contact with aliens that we've ever read.