Robert Arthur 16 min read

In a garden domed with vitrite beneath rising Jupiter, the merry Negu Mah takes his ease with the amphibian Sliss from Venus, as his wife Nanlo refills their mugs from a platinum decanter.

Robert Arthur's 1941 story is a colorful, atmospheric social-SF space opera. Vivid, engaging golden-age pulp. Read it for a richly imagined interplanetary tale where a wealthy, genial man's household of humans and aliens frames a story of desire, indulgence, and an unexpected turn among the moons of Jupiter.

In its time

Published in 1941, during the 1940s, the golden age begins.

Reading it

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