Richard Wilson 29 min read

A newsman on Mars files the latest edition of 'Today on Mars' for transmission to Earth, during the sleepy midpoint of the Landing Day holiday.

Richard Wilson's 1951 story sits in the future newsroom with Scott Warren of the Galactic News Service, mining wry comedy and colonial detail from interplanetary journalism. Genial, well-observed golden-age SF. Read it for a charming tale about the daily grind of reporting from the red planet.

In its time

Published in 1951, during the 1950s, post-war optimism meets cold war anxiety.

Reading it

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

Illustrated by

Edd Cartier