Murray Leinster 1 hr 3 min read

Rhadampsicus and Nodalictha, honeymooning aliens of sixteen eye-stalks, are feeling sentimental, and their tenderness is about to spill over, most inconveniently, onto some humans.

Murray Leinster's 1953 story is a wry, charming first-contact comedy. Clever, funny golden-age SF. Read it for a delightful tale where a pair of vast, godlike alien newlyweds take a whimsical interest in Earthly affairs, and their well-meaning meddling makes for genial cosmic mischief.

In its time

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

Reading it

1 hr 3 min read (a novelette, room for a turn or two).