Daniel F. Galouye 38 min read

At a hundred and thirty, life is gratifying for Titus McWorther on his private planetoid, McWorther's World, thirty miles round, smugly hidden behind a dark nebula, save for one missing detail.

Daniel F. Galouye's 1960 story spins genial social-SF comedy from a retiree's idyllic asteroid estate and its one flaw. Light, inventive golden-age SF. Read it for a droll tale of a smug little private world and the wrinkle that keeps its owner's paradise from being perfect.

In its time

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

Reading it

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

Illustrated by

Wallace Wood