Jr. L. J. Stecher 16 min read

Brash as any high-school newspaper reporter, and there is none brasher, Garth is nonetheless terrified, for on a dare he means to attempt the impossible: an interview with The Visitor.

L. J. Stecher Jr.'s 1958 story spins a charming first-contact tale from an alien cub reporter's audacious scoop. Wry, inventive golden-age SF. Read it for a delightful story where interviewing a god-like being is a teenage journalist's most dangerous assignment yet.

In its time

Published in 1958, during the 1950s, post-war optimism meets cold war anxiety.

Reading it

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

Illustrated by

Dick Francis