Robert F. Young 17 min read

Between the pages of a Taine literary history, book-loving Herbert Quidley finds a folded sheet of typing-drill gibberish, and a half-legible message from somewhere called Fieu Dayol.

Robert F. Young's 1961 story is a wry, inventive first-contact and social-SF tale. Clever, charming golden-age SF. Read it for a genial story where a rare-book dabbler's discovery of a cryptic note in a library tome leads him toward the mysterious, and alluring, girls from Fieu Dayol.

In its time

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

Reading it

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