William W. Stuart 27 min read

'A vacation trip to Nirva?!?' snaps Administrator Screed, a mindless excursion to some absurd 'Dream Planet,' outside his sector, with both his top men wanting to go and leave his work undone.

William W. Stuart's 1961 story spins wry colonization and social-SF comedy from a bureaucrat's horror at a pleasure-world. Clever, funny golden-age SF. Read it for a genial satire where an ambitious administrator is dragged toward a planet that may cost him more than his record.

In its time

Published in 1961, during the 1960s, new wave revolutionizes the genre.

Reading it

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

Illustrated by

Harman