Arnold Marmor 10 min read

'I want her nude! Naked!' the half-crazy director David Fry screams, bent on the most realistic picture ever made, seal of approval or no, censors be damned.

Arnold Marmor's 1954 story is a wry, comic first-contact and social-SF satire of Hollywood. Fun, genial golden-age SF. Read it for a breezy send-up of the movie business, where a ruthless director's scheme for a scandalous film collides, hilariously, with the sensibilities of watching Martians.

In its time

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

Reading it

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