Andrew Fetler 27 min read

George's wife is pretty, smart, and cooks out of this world, but her housekeeping is another matter, and something stranger lurks beneath it.

Andrew Fetler's 1960 story opens on domestic comedy, evaporating perfume, an unlatched Bendix, a hanging diaper, before its social-SF premise emerges. Light, wry golden-age SF with a sitcom setup. Read it for a genial tale where marital bickering opens onto something unexpected.

In its time

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

Reading it

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

Illustrated by

Dick Francis