Malcolm B. Morehart 10 min read

Out rabbit-hunting in a misty dawn canyon, Richard Clark blasts away, misses, and crashes through the brush into a shadowy clearing, where a soft rustling sound quickly fades.

Malcolm B. Morehart's 1953 story spins a clever first-contact and hard-SF tale from an ordinary hunter's chance encounter. Sharp, intriguing golden-age SF. Read it for a story where a clumsy morning's rabbit-shooting leads a man to something, and someone, not of this Earth.

In its time

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

Reading it

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