Bob Farnham 12 min read

Maybe a guy shouldn't believe everything he hears, but some folks won't believe even a true story. Let me buy you a beer, says a veteran brakeman, and tell you about it.

Bob Farnham's 1960 story frames a colorful space-opera tall tale as a railroad man's yarn over a drink. Fun, folksy golden-age SF. Read it for a genial story spun by a seasoned trainman, whose true tale is stranger than anything his listeners would credit.

In its time

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

Reading it

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