James Causey 19 min read

Told through a woman's diary on an expedition, a tale of a distant colony, transmittal trouble, and the fear of disaster among the politician-scientists.

James Causey's 1955 story unfolds in Greta's frustrated, intimate journal, sketching the tensions of an interstellar mission and a colony that may be in peril. Character-driven first-contact SF with a personal voice. Read it for a golden-age tale that filters cosmic stakes through one woman's diary.

In its time

Published in 1955, during the 1950s, post-war optimism meets cold war anxiety.

Reading it

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

Illustrated by

David Stone