George O. Smith 58 min read

'The idea of transmitting matter is fantastic,' someone objects, but Walt Franks, of aerated-soap fame, insists it can be done, and Don Channing of Venus Equilateral is inclined to hear him out.

George O. Smith's 1945 story is a clever hard-SF space opera from his beloved Venus Equilateral series. Sharp, witty golden-age SF. Read it for genial relay-station engineering banter framing an ingenious technical puzzle, matter transmission, from a master of the problem-solving story.

In its time

Published in 1945, during the 1940s, the golden age begins.

Reading it

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

Illustrated by

Frank Kramer