Winston K. Marks 23 min read

At the employment office, Sextus Rollo Forsyte is handed a fine position, general manager of the Mahoney-Plaza, six hundred a month, board and room, right in his line. There's just a catch.

Winston K. Marks's 1954 story mines wry social SF and time-travel comedy from a job that's too good, and too strange, to be true. Light, clever golden-age SF. Read it for a droll tale where a plum position at a curious hotel turns out to be more than any résumé bargained for.

In its time

Published in 1954, during the 1950s, post-war optimism meets cold war anxiety.

Reading it

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

Illustrated by

Kelly Freas