George O. Smith 39 min read

Peter calls out to his sweetheart through the bedroom door, and a deep, cheerful masculine voice answers, 'I'll sit down, but I'm not your honey.' A smiling stranger has let himself in.

George O. Smith's 1947 story spins a wry hard-SF and space-opera tale from an uninvited, uncannily familiar visitor. Sharp, clever golden-age SF. Read it for a genial mystery where a beatifically smiling intruder turns a young man's evening delightfully upside down.

In its time

Published in 1947, during the 1940s, the golden age begins.

Reading it

39 min read (a novelette, room for a turn or two).

Illustrated by

Vincent Napoli