Ron Goulart 24 min read

A schoolteacher, uneasy to be back, walks the quiet night beach at San Miguel, a town filling up with oddballs fleeing the lunatic outfits of Los Angeles.

Ron Goulart's 1960 story spins a wry first-contact and psi tale from a coastal town of eccentrics. Sharp, funny golden-age SF. Read it for a genial, offbeat story where a sleepy California beach community turns out to harbor something considerably stranger than cults.

In its time

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

Reading it

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