Jack Sharkey 9 min read

'I have braved death in so many forms,' the magnificent narrator boasts, 'but nothing raises a goosebump like hunting the flying tuskers of K'niik-K'naak' with his faithful purple guide Mimp.

Jack Sharkey's 1961 story is a wry, comic social-SF space opera spoofing the big-game-hunter tale. Fun, tongue-in-cheek golden-age SF. Read it for a gleeful send-up of the pompous adventurer, as a self-satisfied hunter and his long-suffering alien guide stalk the dreaded tuskers of a far desert world.

In its time

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

Reading it

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