Murray Leinster 29 min read

On the struggling colony world of Eire, the settlers face a homeworld committee chairman who could cut off all their support, and a legend in the making.

Murray Leinster's 1960 story lands the gimlet-eyed Sean O'Donohue on the planet Eire, whose Irish colonists must win over a skeptical grandee while myth quietly reshapes itself across the light-years. Warm, witty social SF about colonization, legend, and stubborn cultural identity. Read it for genial, sharply observed Leinster about how legends really get made.

In its time

Published in 1960, during the 1960s, new wave revolutionizes the genre.

Reading it

29 min read (a novelette, room for a turn or two).

Illustrated by

Bernklau