Murray F. Yaco 16 min read

Thirty million miles out, an alien scout studies Earth's radio and TV for two sleepless days, masters its idioms, then dons a helmet not too unlike the 'space helmets' he's seen on the shows.

Murray F. Yaco's 1960 story spins wry first-contact comedy from an extraterrestrial doing his homework before landing. Clever, funny golden-age SF. Read it for a droll tale of an alien visitor determined to make exactly the right impression on the people of Earth.

In its time

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

Reading it

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

Illustrated by

Grayam