Roger D. Aycock 23 min read

Adventure comes late, at thirty-two, to diffident, dreaming Wesley Filburn, a writer of wistful little fantasies, when something strange and wonderful happens to him over on Sampson's Creek.

Roger D. Aycock's (Roger Dee's) 1956 story is a gentle, whimsical first-contact and social-SF tale. Warm, charming golden-age SF. Read it for a tender story of a timid daydreamer whose quiet life suddenly opens onto wonderful new worlds, in a light, humane golden-age piece about longing, imagination, and the marvelous adventure that finds an unlikely man.

In its time

Published in 1956, during the 1950s, post-war optimism meets cold war anxiety.

Reading it

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