Rosel George Brown 29 min read

A frazzled parent flies the morning car pool, dodging air traffic, leading singalongs, and wishing for eyes in the back of her head.

Rosel George Brown's 1959 story imagines the daily grind of a flying-car school run in a near future, its harried narrator managing shrieking Gail and a chorus of mangled songs. Warm, funny domestic social SF with a first-contact twist. Read it for delightful, wryly observed golden-age SF about parenthood in the age of the family aircar.

In its time

Published in 1959, during the 1950s, post-war optimism meets cold war anxiety.

Reading it

29 min read (a novelette, room for a turn or two).

Illustrated by

Ed Emshwiller