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    The Teacher from Mars
    The Teacher from Mars
    The Teacher from Mars
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    The Teacher from Mars

    By Eando Binder

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    "The Teacher from Mars" became an instant classic when it was published in the February 1941 issue of the classic pulp magazine, Thrilling Wonder Stories. It concerns a Martian who comes to Earth as a teacher, experiencing—in the wake of a devastating war—racism and intolerance. Told from the first person viewpoint of an alien, it was unusual for its time, and Eando Binder (the pseudonym of Otto O. Binder) selected it as his best work for the 1954 anthology, My Best Scieince Fiction Story.

    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherWildside Press
    Release dateApr 19, 2021
    ISBN9781479458424
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      COPYRIGHT INFORMATION

      THE TEACHER FROM MARS

      COPYRIGHT INFORMATION

      Originally published in Thrilling Wonder Stories, Feb. 1941

      Copyright © 1940, renewed 1968 by Otto Oscar Binder.

      Published by Wildside Press LLC.

      wildsidepress.com | bcmystery.com

      THE TEACHER FROM MARS

      EANDO BINDER

      The afternoon Rocket Express train from Chicago came into the station, and I stepped off. It was a warm spring day. The little town of Elkhart, Indiana, sprawled lazily under the golden sunshine. I trudged along quiet, tree-shaded streets toward Caslon Preparatory School for Boys.

      Before I had gone far, I was discovered by the children playing here and there. With the dogs, they formed a shrill, raucous procession behind me. Some of the dogs growled, as they might at a wild animal. Housewives looked from their windows and gasped.

      So the rumors they had heard were true. The new teacher at Caslon was a Martian!

      I suppose I am grotesquely alien to human eyes, extremely tall and incredibly thin. In fact, I am seven feet tall, with what have often been described as broomstick arms and spindly legs. On an otherwise scrawny body, only the Martian chest is filled out, in comparison with Earth people. I was dressed in a cotton kimona that dangled from my narrow shoulders to my bony ankles. Chinese style, I understand.

      Thus far I am pseudo-human. For the rest, a Martian is alien, from the Earth viewpoint. Two long tentacles from the back of my shoulders hang to my knees, appendages that have not vanished in Martian evolution

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