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I'm a Stranger Here Myself

Mack Reynolds

I'm a Stranger Here Myself

Mack Reynolds

Two men nursing beers in a Tangier café stumble into something far stranger than the exotic city around them. Rupert and Paul begin with small talk, but their conversation spirals into a delightful thought experiment: what if advanced aliens have been watching Earth all along? What would they make of humanity's chaos? And in a gleeful twist, they begin to wonder if they themselves might be the aliens, so strange does human civilization appear when you really look at it. Mack Reynolds, writing in the early 1960s, uses this slender premise to mine enormous comedy and quiet wisdom. Tangier the international zone, that legendary waystation for writers, spies, and lost souls becomes the perfect backdrop for a meditation on otherness. The joke lands because it's true: every human is, in some sense, a stranger here. This is science fiction as philosophical comedy, a short story that proves the best speculative ideas can fit in a café conversation over beer.

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