M. E. Knerr 2 hr 18 min read

He leaves the mother ship and rockets down toward Terra, thinking not of being the first Terran to fly an alien craft, but of the woman waiting for him, Elizabeth Danson of Everett, Pennsylvania.

M. E. Knerr's 1962 novel is a racy first-contact and social-SF tale of its adult-paperback era. Vivid, of its moment. Read it for a period curiosity, a lurid-titled early-'60s science-fiction paperback where an alien in human guise comes to Earth, blending pulp SF with the risqué sensibility of its market.

In its time

Published in 1962, during the 1960s, new wave revolutionizes the genre.

Reading it

2 hr 18 min read (a novella, a full arc in one sitting or two).