Jesse F. Bone 28 min read

'Noble' and 'redman' are two words the narrator detests, especially together, a far-future galactic ruler forced to admit the obscene truth that his ancestors came from Earth.

Jesse F. Bone's 1960 story spins a sharp, ironic colonization and social-SF tale of galactic humans ashamed of their homeworld. Witty, pointed golden-age SF. Read it for a clever story that turns humanity's descendants into snobs who'd rather forget the little blue planet they came from.

In its time

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

Reading it

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

Illustrated by

Grayam