Robert Abernathy 18 min read

Some criticized the First Earth Expedition for fleeing the Blue Planet so hastily, so its interpreter, Shapplo of the Long Proboscis, sets down the full, true story of their adventures on Earth.

Robert Abernathy's 1942 story cleverly flips the invasion tale, telling of Martian explorers who fled our terrifying world. Wry, inventive golden-age SF. Read it for a story where Earth is the peril, recounted by an alien who barely escaped it with his life.

In its time

Published in 1942, during the 1940s, the golden age begins.

Reading it

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

Illustrated by

Robert A. Graef