Walter J. Sheldon 16 min read

A tiny spaceship, built for a journey to a star, and its small mischievous pilots have a rendezvous with destiny, on Earth, in a quiet green park near the nuclear propulsion center.

Walter J. Sheldon's 1960 story blends hard-SF rocketry with whimsical Irish-flavored fantasy in a charming space-opera tale. Warm, playful golden-age SF. Read it for a delightful story where a scientist's park bench encounter with wee folk turns out to matter for the stars.

In its time

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

Reading it

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