Basil Wells 20 min read

Dorav Brink wakes from a month-long hibernation with a delicious sense of achievement, he has escaped the idle boredom of Earth's mechanized domes for adventure and honest work on Sulle II.

Basil Wells's 1955 story is a colonization and first-contact tale of eager settlers on a new world. Sharp, atmospheric golden-age SF. Read it for a story of pioneers waking to a fresh planet and the hard, hopeful work of building a life among the stars.

In its time

Published in 1955, during the 1950s, post-war optimism meets cold war anxiety.

Reading it

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