Jesse F. Bone 34 min read

A big spaceman talks to himself in a bar and admits to drinking ethanol, a bad habit, he says, that he picked up on the newly discovered world of Lyrane.

Jesse F. Bone's 1960 story opens on an unadjusted, self-muttering spacer whose account of Lyrane frames a wry first-contact tale. Character-driven, wryly funny golden-age SF. Read it for a genial story told over a drink by a man carrying strange news from a new planet.

In its time

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

Reading it

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