James McKimmey 13 min read

Two years ago on Earth, Daniel Loveral put a finger on a map and named it the Dream Planet, and now, his flock settled at last, one troublesome name ticks through his brain.

James McKimmey's 1953 story is a sharp utopia-and-dystopia tale of a promised paradise and the cracks within it. Thoughtful, ironic golden-age SF. Read it for a story where the leader of a dream-colony confronts the first threat to the world he built.

In its time

Published in 1953, during the 1950s, post-war optimism meets cold war anxiety.

Reading it

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

Illustrated by

Paul Orban