Mack Reynolds 10 min read

In three minutes' walk from the Place de France you cross from a California-like resort to the Baghdad of Harun al-Rashid, quite a town, Tangier, where a very strange traveler turns up.

Mack Reynolds's 1958 story sets a wry first-contact and social-SF tale in the exotic crossroads of Tangier. Vivid, atmospheric golden-age SF. Read it for a story steeped in the color of a real city, where a stranger's odd questions hint at something not of this world.

In its time

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

Reading it

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