The Martian by A. R. Hilliard & Allen Glasser
A stranger from Mars, dazed by new conditions and unable to make his wants known, falls among the low and brutish elements of Earth, and his fate is anything but the cordial welcome we imagine.
A. R. Hilliard and Allen Glasser's 1932 story is a sharp, sobering first-contact and social-SF tale. Clever, humane golden-age SF. Read it for a story that punctures the comfortable assumption of a warm welcome for alien visitors, following a lost Martian through an Earth as cruel to strangers as our own can be.
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- In its time
- Published in 1932, during the 1930s, space opera soars.
- Reading it
- 46 min read (a novelette, room for a turn or two).
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