James McKimmey 23 min read

Sixteen-year-old George knows more about love than his narrow, angry forty-two-year-old father ever could, because George is in love with Gistla, a native girl of Venus.

James McKimmey's 1961 story tells a tender first-contact and colonization tale of adolescent love across the human-Venusian divide. Warm, humane golden-age SF. Read it for a moving story about a teenage boy, prejudice, and the girl of another world his family can't accept.

In its time

Published in 1961, during the 1960s, new wave revolutionizes the genre.

Reading it

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