Fredric Brown 34 min read

An absent-minded Viennese professor in Connecticut builds a tiny rocket and picks an ordinary mouse named Mitkey to be its pilot, never dreaming what will come back down.

Fredric Brown's 1942 story is a delightful, whimsical first-contact space opera. Charming, funny, beloved. Read it for a genuine classic of comic SF, the immortal tale of Mitkey the space mouse, who returns from the stars vastly changed, told with Brown's inimitable wit, warmth, and lightness of touch.

In its time

Published in 1942, during the 1940s, the golden age begins.

Reading it

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

Illustrated by

Don Lynch