Watson Parker 11 min read

'Suzy, Suzy, Suzy!' Whit Clayborne moans in the cold and dark and solitude, staring at the luminous clock, one hundred forty-three days out, four hundred and seven to go.

Watson Parker's 1960 story is a taut AI-and-social-SF tale of solitude on a long space voyage. Sharp, affecting golden-age SF. Read it for a claustrophobic story of a man alone in the deep with only 'Suzy' to keep him sane, as the endless days grind toward a landing that may come too late.

In its time

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

Reading it

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