Mack Reynolds 14 min read

Two highway patrolmen skid across a field toward what they take for a crashed Air Force plane, and instead find a wheelless, cockpitless egg, from which a yawning alien steps and says, 'Glork.'

Mack Reynolds's 1954 story is a genial first-contact comedy of an alien visitor loose on Earth. Fun, wry golden-age SF. Read it for a delightful tale where a stranded, telepathic extraterrestrial named Dameri Tass causes escalating confusion after landing off course.

In its time

Published in 1954, during the 1950s, post-war optimism meets cold war anxiety.

Reading it

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

Illustrated by

Kelly Freas