From Gustible's Planet (1962) [Short Story]
by Cordwainer Smith
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Summary
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Serendipity provides a modest solution to the problem posed by an alien race remarkably similar to obnoxious in-laws who come for a visit and never leave.
First appeared in Worlds of If, July 1962.
Reprinted in:
- The Instrumentality of Mankind.
- The Flying Sorcerers
Original title: From Gustible's Planet
Original languages:
English
Quotes:
Genre: Fiction→ Science Fiction→ Humorous, Parody and Comedy
Fiction→ Science Fiction→ Alien Beings→ Interspecies Relations
This work is a subwork of the following works :
Instrumentality of Mankind, the (1979) [Collection]
Author: Cordwainer Smith
Rediscovery of Man, the (1993) [Collection]
Author: Cordwainer Smith
Flying Sorcerers, the (1997) [Anthology]
Authors: Arthur C. Clarke
, Terry Pratchett
, Kurt Vonnegut
, Piers Anthony
, Roald Dahl
, Stanislaw Lem
, C. S. Lewis
, Harry Harrison
, Cordwainer Smith
, Thomas M. Disch
, Mervyn Peake
, Michael Moorcock
, L. Sprague de Camp
, William F. Nolan
, Robert Bloch
, Fletcher Pratt
, Robert Sheckley
, John Collier
, Fredric Brown
, Nelson S. Bond
, P.G. Wodehouse
, Angela Carter
, Stephen Leacock
, John Wyndham
, Eric Knight
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