Dean Evans 29 min read

Jet test-pilot love and a ninth-dimensional alter ego make a bad mix, as the narrator, fresh from walking out on his girl, faces the Air Force's new manned flying saucer and a menace from beyond.

Dean Evans's 1953 story is a wry first-contact space opera. Clever, breezy golden-age SF. Read it for a genial pulp yarn where romance, experimental aircraft, and an eerie extra-dimensional intruder collide, in a fast, funny golden-age tale of a test pilot whose troubles are as much cosmic as they are romantic.

In its time

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

Reading it

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