Alan Edward Nourse 23 min read

'Grdznth problem getting to be a PRoblem,' the frantic telegram reads, need an expert to get the gators out of everyone's hair fast, and PR-man Pete is summoned to sort out the aliens.

Alan E. Nourse's 1956 story is a clever, funny hard-SF and social-SF tale of alien immigrants and public relations. Sharp, witty golden-age SF. Read it for a genial story where the arrival of strange, multiplying aliens becomes a public-relations crisis only one man can spin.

In its time

Published in 1956, during the 1950s, post-war optimism meets cold war anxiety.

Reading it

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