Roger D. Aycock 18 min read

The most vicious carnivore the Galactics know has escaped, a Morid, fleeing in a stolen lifeboat straight to forbidden Earth, where a Telethink station catches its fleeing attention.

Roger Dee's 1959 story is a sharp first-contact and social-SF tale that turns the alien-monster premise on its head. Clever, ironic golden-age SF. Read it for a witty story where the galaxy's most fearsome beast lands on an Earth it fatally misjudges, with a wry sting in the tale.

In its time

Published in 1959, during the 1950s, post-war optimism meets cold war anxiety.

Reading it

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

Illustrated by

Barberis