Henry Farrell 1 hr 53 min read

As doomsday bombs tick behind locked doors and the whole world listens in fear, the invisible sprite Toffee returns, to work her mischief on a planet trembling on the brink.

Henry Farrell's 1951 story is a zany fantasy and social-SF comedy with a topical edge. Fun, madcap golden-age SF. Read it for another screwball Toffee romp, this one shadowed by Cold War nuclear dread, where the mischievous invisible sprite's antics play out against a world afraid of the bomb, in a fast, funny, faintly pointed golden-age farce.

In its time

Published in 1951, during the 1950s, post-war optimism meets cold war anxiety.

Reading it

1 hr 53 min read (a novella, a full arc in one sitting or two).

Illustrated by

Robert Fuqua