It turns out if you go looking up an SF writer from the golden age (and it's always somebody's golden age in SF), you might get an unexpected bonus.
William Tenn was one of the best humorists the genre has yet produced, from biting satire to gentle comedy. In real life, he was Philip Klass,* electronics geek, technical editor and, later a professor of English, teaching writing to a number of students who would go on to fame, or at least decent incomes.
And one of his last published stories, On Venus, Have We Got A Rabbi! is a classic of at least to genres. He read it on the radio back in 2002: his voice, and very much the voice of his narrator, a humble TV repairman. On Venus. A few hundred years in the future. And oh, the trouble they have had there!
Absolutely worth your listening time. Or your reading, you'd prefer.
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* And not, as it happens, Philip J. Klass, aerospace and electronics geek and UFO debunker. That's a whole other guy.
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