Randall Garrett 55 min read

A great politician need not be a statesman, but it's futile to be a great statesman and no politician. Except, of course, for a miracle. And Convention Hall is a hurricane of sound.

Randall Garrett's 1962 story (as 'Sam and Janet Argo') mines sharp social SF from the machinery of politics and a possible miracle. Witty, pointed golden-age SF. Read it for a clever tale set amid the roar of a nominating convention, where statesmanship and showmanship collide.

In its time

Published in 1962, during the 1960s, new wave revolutionizes the genre.

Reading it

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

Illustrated by

John Schoenherr