Clifford D. Simak 46 min read

Mild Mr. Oliver Meek has troubles: educated bugs, a welfare worker's feud, and now he's been drafted into a game of space-polo, a fortune riding on his skill at a sport he's never played.

Clifford D. Simak's 1944 story is a delightful comic space-opera romp starring his beloved timid hero Mr. Meek. Fun, witty golden-age SF. Read it for a genial tale where a cloistered little man is thrust, hilariously, into a high-stakes game among the asteroids.

In its time

Published in 1944, during the 1940s, the golden age begins.

Reading it

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

Illustrated by

Graham Ingels