George O. Smith 54 min read

Don Channing stands back and admires his latest gadget with all the fervency of a high school girl in her first party dress, until his wife Arden asks, 'Don, what off earth is that?'

George O. Smith's 1944 story is a clever hard-SF space opera from his beloved Venus Equilateral series. Sharp, witty golden-age SF. Read it for a genial tale of relay-station engineers, where Channing's newest technical marvel frames an ingenious problem-solving adventure among the planets.

In its time

Published in 1944, during the 1940s, the golden age begins.

Reading it

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

Illustrated by

Frank Kramer