Robert F. Young 6 min read

You know Rosemary Brooks, you've known her for years. As a girl her favorite poem was 'Barbara Frietchie'; she grew up lovely, and yet the young men almost never asked her to dance.

Robert F. Young's 1964 story builds a tender, lyrical social-SF and space-opera tale around a woman you feel you already know. Warm, poignant golden-age SF. Read it for a gently unfolding story whose intimate, familiar heroine turns out to carry a quietly extraordinary secret.

In its time

Published in 1964, during the 1960s, new wave revolutionizes the genre.

Reading it

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