Arthur G. Stangland 29 min read

New neighbors are always exciting, but the anachronistic MacDonalds offer a bit too much, and Philon Miller can't forget last night's visitors, even over his automated 2052 breakfast of ham and eggs.

Arthur G. Stangland's 1953 story is a wry social-SF and time-travel tale. Clever, genial golden-age SF. Read it for a story where a comfortable future householder's strange new neighbors, and the house that appeared from nowhere, upend his managed and complacent world.

In its time

Published in 1953, during the 1950s, post-war optimism meets cold war anxiety.

Reading it

29 min read (a novelette, room for a turn or two).