Dave Dryfoos 12 min read

On the most important morning of his life, February 30, 2054, Boswell Budge is dragged awake not by his snooze-able electronic alarm but by his three unturnoffable children climbing onto his stomach.

Dave Dryfoos's 1953 story spins genial AI-and-social-SF comedy from a future family and a fateful new job. Warm, funny golden-age SF. Read it for a delightful domestic tale of procrastination, kids, and machines, on a very big day in an ordinary man's life.

In its time

Published in 1953, during the 1950s, post-war optimism meets cold war anxiety.

Reading it

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

Illustrated by

John Balbalis