First Contact with the Gorgonids

A short farce in which a loud and ignorant American tourist in the Australian outback tries to have an authentic (ie inconsiderate) experience with aboriginals, failing to realise they are in fact alien in a more otherworldly way.

First published in Omni, vol. 14. Also appears in "A Fisherman of the Inland Sea" and "The Unreal and the Real" (Volume 2).