Dear Nan Glanders

A time-traveling friend brings back a newspaper clipping from the far future, where interplanetary society still relies on one familiar institution: the advice column. Nan Glanders fields questions from anxious parents, party hosts, expectant mothers, and star travelers struggling to navigate the bewildering customs of alien neighbors.

Her replies are brisk, practical, and gloriously unbothered by tentacles, fish-tailed brides, telepathy, or the hazards of matter transmission. Whether a guest prefers to hang from the ceiling, a greeting involves spitting on someone’s shoes, or an unfortunate accident produces duplicate husbands, everyday etiquette becomes an absurd cosmic puzzle. This lighthearted science-fiction satire mixes domestic dilemmas with playful extraterrestrial world-building, offering a series of compact comic scenarios that are especially well suited to listeners who enjoy vintage speculative fiction and dry, mischievous humor.