"The Landlords" is a brief but imaginative story exploring the relations between the modern human race and a group of aliens called 'the Landlords' who reveal to us that we have only been allowed to exist on planet Earth based on an ancient contract with them, a contract which recently expired and warrants our eviction from Earth. The story explores various interactions that the human race has with these extraterrestrial beings and how the world's leaders are pressed to find solutions while the aliens plot ways to rid the planet of us, gently or forcibly.