Patrick Fahy 12 min read

A cashiered space commander walks into Planet Enterprises, Inc. and spends his entire life savings to buy himself a world.

Patrick Fahy's 1960 story sets ex-Commander Jim Channing at a realty desk, staking his whole signing-off bonus on a planet of his own, and wondering whether they've sold him a pup. Wry, breezy space opera about starting over on a world you can barely afford. Read it for genial golden-age SF about one man's very expensive fresh start.

In its time

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

Reading it

12 min read (a short story, a single idea, delivered and gone).

Illustrated by

Don Martin