Cover for Tony and the Beetles
Short Story

Tony and the Beetles

1953

About this story

A human boy grows up among the alien people his family helps to rule. News of a military defeat changes his relationships with the local children and exposes tensions he had never understood.

Chronology

Work history

  1. no later than Aug 31, 1953

    Composition: no later than Aug 31, 1953

    Latest supported composition boundary based on agency receipt evidence.

    Medium confidence
  2. Aug 31, 1953

    Received by Scott Meredith Literary Agency

    Aug 31, 1953

  3. Dec 1953

    First published Dec 1953

    Orbit SF