James Stamers 21 min read

All he wanted was a good night's sleep; what he got was visitation rights with history's most exasperating sleepwalkers, and a fried egg floating up through the Medical Center's steps.

James Stamers's 1961 story is a witty, surreal first-contact and social-SF comedy of psychic mishaps. Funny, inventive golden-age SF. Read it for a breezy, off-kilter tale where a man's ordinary morning dissolves into floating breakfasts and phantom sleepwalkers, told with wry charm.

In its time

Published in 1961, during the 1960s, new wave revolutionizes the genre.

Reading it

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

Illustrated by

Dick Francis