#eBook My Fair Planet by Evelyn E. Smith

“All the world’s a stage, so there was room even for this bad actor ... only he intended to direct it!”

As Paul Lambrequin was clambering up the stairs of his rooming house, he met a man whose face was all wrong. “Good evening,” Paul said politely and was about to continue on his way when the man stopped him.

“You are the first person I have encountered in this place who has not shuttered at the sight of me,” he said in a toneless voice with an accent that was outside the standard repertoire.

Evelyn E. Smith (25 July 1922 – 4 July 2000) was an American writer of science fiction and mysteries, as well as a compiler of crossword puzzles.
During the 1950s, under her own name, Smith regularly published short stories and novelettes in such publications as Galaxy Science Fiction, Fantastic Universe and the prestigious The Magazine of Fantasy & Science Fiction. Her short fiction ranges from satires set in a post-apocalyptic setting such as “The Last of the Spode” and “The Hardest Bargain”, to “BAXBR/DAXBR”, where she explores the dangers of Martian crossword puzzles. Her science fiction novels, which chiefly deal with questions of gender identity and, like all of her work, are characterized by their wit and humor.

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First published 1958
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