This is another new-to-me author in my tour of Golden Age science fiction. It's a collection of short stories first published in the 1950s with maybe a few from the early 1960s. The prose was readable, without the stiltedness I'd been half-expecting from work of that age. There were a few typos, but nothing terribly distracting.

For many of the stories, the author brings a sense of gentle humour into an unusual situation: most commonly some kind of culture clash with misunderstandings and misinterpretations between various parties (whether deliberate or inadvertent). The speculative elements are kept light, with the emphasis on how people (whether human or not) deal with issues rather than the nitty-gritty of how they got there. I enjoyed this approach, although by the halfway point it was starting to feel a bit repetitive. I guess that's a hazard of reading a compilation since they wouldn't all have been published at the same time.