Final Exam

by Sam Merwin Jr.

Sam Merwin’s entertaining, provocative, and warmly human little yarns about spacemen and their foibles have enlivened our pages—along with novelette-length stories of wider compass and somewhat graver import—since that momentous hour when FANTASTIC UNIVERSE was born out of the fire-mists of an island universe hovering directly opposite the Pleiades. But seldom has he come up with a shorter-length yarn quite as excitingly unusual as this.

They had prepared a sturdy bomb shelter to protect the Great Man from the Flying Saucers. But he had to see them with his own eyes.

Audiobook

Published November 1, 1955

About the author

Samuel Kimball Merwin, Jr. was an American mystery fiction writer, editor and science fiction author, who published fiction mostly as Sam Merwin, Jr. His pseudonyms included Elizabeth Deare Bennett, Matt Lee, Jacques Jean Ferrat and Carter Sprague.