Henry Guth 17 min read

Ten-year-old Lanya, clutching her big brother's hand, wanders wide-eyed through the great halls of the Martian Museum of Science toward the one exhibit her brother promised her.

Henry Guth's 1947 story frames its space-opera tale through a child's wonder at a museum on Mars, with a poignant reveal at its heart. Gentle, evocative golden-age SF. Read it for a tender story that views a far-future solar system through the eyes of a little girl.

In its time

Published in 1947, during the 1940s, the golden age begins.

Reading it

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

Illustrated by

Rafael Jerard Norman Astarita