Chester Cohen 10 min read

'My wife don't believe me,' the man begins, that's why she made him come tell his story: the God's honest truth of the madness that gripped Manhattan when Queerpants came to town.

Chester Cohen's 1956 story is a colorful first-contact and social-SF yarn told in a plain-spoken working man's voice. Fun, wry golden-age SF. Read it for a genial tall-tale of an unlikely witness to something strange in the big city, and the money that's rightly his.

In its time

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

Reading it

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

Illustrated by

John Giunta