Winston K. Marks 23 min read

Major Daphne owns more planets than the narrator owns golf balls, and never tires of bragging about his interstellar hunting trips, a bear of a man with the morals of a rabbit.

Winston K. Marks's 1955 story is a genial social-SF and space-opera tale of a big-game boaster and a very unusual quarry. Fun, wry golden-age SF. Read it for a droll tall tale about a rich blowhard's hunting exploits, and the wampus that teaches him a lesson.

In its time

Published in 1955, during the 1950s, post-war optimism meets cold war anxiety.

Reading it

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

Illustrated by

W. E. Terry