The Ignoble Savages: A Positronic Book

by Evelyn E. Smith

Snaddra had but one choice in its fight to afford to live belowground-underhandedly pretend theirs was an aboveboard society! Needless to say nothing is quite what it seems 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.

Genres: Science Fiction

46 pages, Hardcover

Published February 28, 2021

About the author

Evelyn E. Smith was an American author of Science Fiction. During the 1950s, her works appeared regularly in magazines such as Galaxy and Fantastic Universe. In the 1980s, she wrote a number of novels featuring the character Miss Melville, a middle-aged assassin.

She also wrote as Delphine C. Lyons and Christopher Grimm.

Reviews

[Martin · Rating 4 out of 5]

A tongue-in-cheek short story in which a race of aliens pretend to be more primitive than they actually are, in order to benefit economically from trade and other contacts with Earth. I strongly suspect there are some sly comments being made here about the various types of imperialism.