Classic Short Science Fiction Stories · various

A World by the Tale

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MacLeod realizes Earth is to the galaxy what New Guinea tribesmen were to the British Empire.
Professor John MacLeod, the first Earthman to travel to a galactic planet, becomes Earth's only valuable resource when his book becomes a galactic bestseller. As Earth's government tries to confiscate his earnings, MacLeod realizes he holds unprecedented leverage over humanity's future in a galaxy that views Earth as a primitive backwater.

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A sharp satire of pride, reputation, and the cost of becoming a galaxy-wide joke.

Seton McKettrick's story centers on Professor John Hamish MacLeod as one book pushes him into interplanetary ridicule, widening the joke from one embarrassed zoologist to an entire Earth scrambling to recover its pride.

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When you want a brisk satire about one book that turns Earth into a galaxy-wide laughingstock.

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