John Victor Peterson 17 min read

Anti-gravity may be hard to handle, but a woman scorned is harder, and the narrator's living room has become the training station for Space Satellite One, a blonde named Gladys orbiting through it.

John Victor Peterson's 1957 story is a wry, comic hard-SF and social-SF tale. Fun, genial golden-age SF. Read it for a breezy domestic farce where a scientist's home experiments in anti-gravity collide with his wife's jealousy, and a floating blonde sets his reputation dangerously spinning.

In its time

Published in 1957, during the 1950s, post-war optimism meets cold war anxiety.

Reading it

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

Illustrated by

Robert Engle