Noel M. Loomis 15 min read

He could have spent his hard-earned three hundred dollars on a year of school, but smooth-talking Slim Coleman, eyes shining, has a real deal that'll turn it into four years for them both.

Noel M. Loomis's 1950 story spins a clever hard-SF and social-SF tale from a get-rich scheme and a very unusual invention. Sharp, wry golden-age SF. Read it for a genial story where two young men's harebrained venture in parking runs headlong into science-fictional consequences.

In its time

Published in 1950, during the 1950s, post-war optimism meets cold war anxiety.

Reading it

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