Jubilation, U.S.A. by G. L. Vandenburg
Two Capellan aliens aim their crypterpreter at a wooden horseshoe sign, 'JUBILATION, U.S.A.! The doggondest, cheeriest little town in America!', and, reassured, decide it's safe to proceed.
G. L. Vandenburg's 1960 story mines warm comedy from cautious aliens landing at a relentlessly friendly small town. Charming, funny first-contact SF. Read it for a genial tale where extraterrestrial scouts take a folksy welcome sign at its word, with delightful results.
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- In its time
- Published in 1960, during the 1960s, new wave revolutionizes the genre.
- Reading it
- 21 min read (a short story, a single idea, delivered and gone).
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