Threlkeld's Daughter

: "Threlkeld's Daughter" by James Bell is a science fiction story from the early 1960s, focusing on what happens when different worlds collide and people change. Captain Threlkeld and his daughter, Gelerie, travel to Earth to bring back a young man to Alpha Centauri. Gelerie, who has become more human, has a hard time because she starts to feel love and desire, unlike her dad, who only cares about using logic. But as Gelerie spends time on Earth, she falls in love with Twitty, an Earthman, which gets in the way of their mission. She comes up with a plan to marry Twitty, which would give her alien boss a new person for their planet but also let her have the love she found. This decision brings hope for everyone.