Roy Hutchins 21 min read

If you can't get the good old days out of your mind, there's only one person to blame, Edgar's grandmother. The darling of old ladies and despair of the young, Edgar's real trouble is his manners.

Roy Hutchins's 1954 story is a wry psi-powers and social-SF comedy. Clever, funny golden-age SF. Read it for a genial tale of a young man cursed with impeccable old-fashioned manners and a strange susceptibility to nostalgia, in a light and charming take on inherited sentiment.

In its time

Published in 1954, during the 1950s, post-war optimism meets cold war anxiety.

Reading it

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