Visitor from the East (2016) is an alternate history short story written by Harry Turtledove. It is the first of two short works published in Thirty Days Later: Steaming Forward: 30 Adventures in Time (A.J. Sikes, B.J. Sikes, and Dover Whitecliff, ed., Thinking Ink Press 2016) and would later be reprinted in Turtledove's short-story collection ''

The Best of Harry Turtledove ''The Best of Harry Turtledove'' is a collection of science fiction short stories by American author Harry Turtledove. It was first published in hardcover and ebook by Subterranean Press in April 2021. Summary The book contains twenty-four shor ...

'' in 2021. It is also the first short story in the State of Jefferson Stories.

Plot

The story is essentially a vignette, set in August 1979, spotlighting the Sasquatch Jefferson State Governor Bill Williamson's meeting/photo-op with the Yeti

Lama Lama (; "chief") is a title for a teacher of the Dharma in Tibetan Buddhism. The name is similar to the Sanskrit term ''guru'', meaning "heavy one", endowed with qualities the student will eventually embody. The Tibetan word "lama" means "hi ...

of Tibet, who has been living in-exile in Jefferson ever since China's Invasion of Tibet in 1959. The story gives a quick sketch of Jefferson's history and comparatively open culture, and hints at the broad role sasquatches have played in the Pacific Northwest of the United States.

References

2016 short stories Short stories by Harry Turtledove Fiction set in 1979 Bigfoot in popular culture Tibet in fiction Yeti in fiction {{2010s-story-stub