Allen Kim Lang 1 hr 1 min read

A young woman applies for a bank job to a vice-president in a scarlet vest and furry green earmuffs, at a very curious institution indeed.

Allen Kim Lang's 1961 story sets the bewildered Orison McCall amid the hip patter and strange fashions of the William Howard Taft Bank, launching a comic social-SF mystery. Light, funny golden-age SF with a screwball charm. Read it for a genial tale where a routine job interview opens onto something delightfully odd.

In its time

Published in 1961, during the 1960s, new wave revolutionizes the genre.

Reading it

1 hr 1 min read (a novelette, room for a turn or two).

Illustrated by

Jack Gaughan