Stephen Marlowe 27 min read

'I didn't come fifty light-years for press releases,' snaps reporter Jane Crowley at the scowling Information Officer on Mandmoora, she came for her story, and she means to get it.

Stephen Marlowe's 1956 story is a fast, colorful space-opera adventure starring a determined newswoman on a dangerous world. Sharp, spirited golden-age SF. Read it for a rousing tale where a sharp-tongued reporter refuses to be fobbed off and digs her way into real peril.

In its time

Published in 1956, during the 1950s, post-war optimism meets cold war anxiety.

Reading it

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

Illustrated by

W. E. Terry