Alien Planet is uncharacteristic of science fiction of the 1930s, which tended more towards space opera (in the sense the term began to be used in the 1970s).

Written in a careful, reportorial style, it purports to be an account of one of two friends inadvertently transported to another world with the occupant of a disabled alien craft they aid in repairing his "sky car" (Shoraru) while on a mountain hike.

[4] Merrick Wells and Alvin Schierstedt meet a man-like alien (Ashembe) from Murashema.

He is lauded by the aliens for this new art form, but Merrick learns he will be castigated and punished if it is discovered these poems are not original.

He luckily makes his escape before his misunderstanding of alien customs casts him into peril; and he learns that even a seemingly utopian government must inevitably have flaws.