Evan Hunter 30 min read

The narrator buys a nearly-new Remington Noiseless in a Third Avenue pawn shop for five dollars, a suspiciously good deal, and there is, of course, something wrong with the typewriter.

Evan Hunter's 1954 story is a wry AI-and-social-SF comedy. Clever, funny golden-age SF. Read it for a genial tale by the future author of 'The Blackboard Jungle', a struggling writer, a too-cheap typewriter with a mind of its own, and a most unusual case of literary plagiarism from the stars.

In its time

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

Reading it

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

Illustrated by

W. E. Terry