Jack Sharkey 14 min read

In 1962 the Air Force finds itself with a radar-proof airplane, cause for rejoicing, until the question arises: what on earth should we actually do with it against 'Certain Powers'?

Jack Sharkey's 1960 story is a wry dystopian social-SF and Cold War satire. Clever, funny golden-age SF. Read it for a genial story where a miraculous new weapon poses a delicious problem, and the search for the perfect, backfire-proof way to give the enemy 'the business' leads somewhere unexpected.

In its time

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

Reading it

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