Robert F. Young 23 min read

A warm-hearted tale, dated September 1996, of love conquering all, even the Cold War, even Moscow itself.

Robert F. Young's 1962 story is a gentle romantic fable framed as a future news history, addressed to those too young to remember 'the star over Moscow.' Sweet, hopeful social SF from a writer who specialized in tenderness. Read it for an unabashedly romantic golden-age story that dares to imagine love bridging the great divide.

In its time

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

Reading it

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

Illustrated by

Lloyd Birmingham