Bewildering Stories introduces and welcomes...

Dimitar Dakovski

Dimitar lives with his family in Sofia, Bulgaria. He is a software engineer and is enthusiastic about fantasy and science fiction. He has published short stories in both Bulgarian and English. The editor congratulates Dimitar on his advanced proficiency in English.

“The Perfect Form” plays a joke on the readers by leading us to assume that the inhabitants of the extrasolar world are beings we can meet and converse with, especially since they are so much like ourselves. And that is the hidden moral of the story: we expect “space aliens” to be like us even though nothing says that sapient life need take any particular “perfect form.”

“The Perfect Form” recalls in reverse Hal Clement’s Iceworld (1953), where friendly space aliens come to visit Earth. They find our planet tentacle-chillingly cold, because their world is, by Earthling standards, intolerably hot.

Dimitar Dakovski’s bio sketch can be found here.

Welcome to Bewildering Stories, Dimitar. We hope to hear from you again soon and often!