The Ambassador

The Ambassador is a Science Fiction Book. The book says that Zalen Lindsay stood on the rostrum in the huge new United Worlds auditorium on the shore of Lake Pontchartrain and looked out at an ocean of eye glasses. Individually they ranged in hue from the rose tinted spectacles of the Americans to the dark brown of the Soviet bloc. Their shapes and adornments were legion: round, harlequin, diamond, rhomboid, octagonal, square, oval; rimless, gem studded, horn rimmed, floral rimmed, rimmed in the cases of some of the lady representatives with immense artificial eyelashes. The total effect, to Lindsay, was of looking at an immense page of printed matter composed entirely of punctuation marks. Unspectacled, he felt like a man from Mars. He was a man from Mars first Martian Ambassador Plenipotentiary to the Second United Worlds Congress. He wished he could see some of the eyes behind the protective goggles, for he knew he was making them blink.