James Stamers 21 min read

Lawyer Mr. Jones, notorious for his spectacular and dangerous alien clients, squelches up to the bench before three damp, irritable Space Zoning Commissioners to plead his latest peculiar case.

James Stamers's 1961 story is a wry, inventive social-SF space opera comedy. Fun, clever golden-age SF. Read it for a genial courtroom farce set among the bureaucrats who license alien species, where an unflappable attorney's outlandish clients make for delightful comic SF with a satirical bite.

In its time

Published in 1961, during the 1960s, new wave revolutionizes the genre.

Reading it

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