Beta McGavin 4 min read

A time-traveller returns from the future with a clipping from the Galactic Times, proof that even the world of tomorrow will have an advice column.

Beta McGavin's 1962 story frames its social SF as letters to a future agony aunt, mining wry comedy from cosmic sex and interplanetary etiquette. Light, funny golden-age satire. Read it for a genial gag: the humdrum worries of ordinary folk, forwarded from centuries hence.

In its time

Published in 1962, during the 1960s, new wave revolutionizes the genre.

Reading it

4 min read (a short story, a single idea, delivered and gone).

Illustrated by

Leo Summers