James R. Adams 24 min read

An avid fan grins over his letter to the editor of Galactic Adventures, his favorite science-fiction magazine, never dreaming his taste for pulp space war is about to become alarmingly real.

James R. Adams's 1945 story spins a genial first-contact and military-SF tale from a reader's love of the pulps. Fun, self-aware golden-age SF. Read it for a droll story where an ordinary fan of space adventure finds himself living the very thing he loves to read.

In its time

Published in 1945, during the 1940s, the golden age begins.

Reading it

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