Allen Kim Lang 47 min read

Amish colonists carry their old-order faith and their patient ways to a new planet, a lantern held up to warn the fools with eyes.

Allen Kim Lang's 1962 story, framed by a Hausa proverb, follows the black-hatted Aaron Stoltzfoos and his people as they settle a frontier world without surrendering their traditions. Warm, thoughtful social SF about faith, simplicity, and colonization. Read it for a distinctive golden-age tale that finds wisdom in the plain folk among the stars.

In its time

Published in 1962, during the 1960s, new wave revolutionizes the genre.

Reading it

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

Illustrated by

George Schelling