Once a Greech - Evelyn E. Smith

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Résumé :
Discovering intelligent life was the last thing Fleet Captain Iversen wanted to happen to his watch. Especially when the ship in question was commanded by his absolute worst officer. And yet, here he was. Evelyn E. Smith is best known as the author of the Miss Melville mysteries. From 1952 to 1969 she wrote dozens of science fiction and fantasy short stories that appeared in magazines such as The Magazine of Fantasy and Science Fiction, Galaxy, Super Science Fiction, and Fantastic Universe. Her stories were witty, well written, often humorous, and always unforgettable.

Biographie:
Evelyn E. Smith (1922-2000) was an American science fiction and fantasy writer whose work appeared widely in the 1950s and 1960s. Known for her intellectual clarity and understated satire, she frequently used speculative settings to explore cultural expectation, institutional authority, and human contradiction. Her stories remain notable for their intelligence, restraint, and social insight within mid-century American science fiction....

Sommaire:
A wry and intelligent mid-century science fiction tale in which transformation, identity, and social expectation collide on unfamiliar ground. In Once a Greech, Evelyn E. Smith explores what happens when the boundaries between categories-human and alien, accepted and outsider-begin to dissolve. As characters navigate the uneasy consequences of change, assumptions about belonging and permanence are tested. Smith's approach is neither melodramatic nor sentimental...