Joy Leache 37 min read

Interstellar trouble-shooting is the easiest work there is, all you need is brains, energy, and a steno with nice legs. Andy Stephens is about to learn otherwise.

Joy Leache's 1961 story is a light, comic social-SF space opera of a hapless promoter's first assignment. Fun, breezy golden-age SF. Read it for a genial workplace farce among the stars, where corporate boosterism collides with the messy reality of an alien world.

In its time

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

Reading it

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

Illustrated by

Jack Gaughan