George O. Smith 59 min read

Stranded nine light-years from a decent tailor, exiled Solarian beauty Sandra Drake curses over a needle as her fine clothes fall to pieces among the four-breasted, feathered women of Telfu.

George O. Smith's 1945 story is a wry social-SF space opera. Clever, engaging golden-age SF. Read it for a genial tale of a resourceful Earthwoman making her way among aliens, where wit and adaptability count for more than force, in a light, inventive golden-age piece with a sharp comic eye and a clever scheme at its heart.

In its time

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

Reading it

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

Illustrated by

Frank Kramer