Carl Jacobi 42 min read

The managing editor wants an impossible scoop: a personal interview with the Nebula, which, for all reporter Phil Hanley knows, might be a four-dimensional robot.

Carl Jacobi's 1946 story opens in the newsroom of the Martian Globe, sending a fed-up reporter after an assignment straight out of nightmare. Brisk, colorful golden-age space opera. Read it for a fun tale of interplanetary journalism and a scoop no sane reporter should have to chase.

In its time

Published in 1946, during the 1940s, the golden age begins.

Reading it

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

Illustrated by

Harry Leydenfrost