Pauline Ashwell 1 hr 36 min read

A delusion is a fine thing for prodding angry belligerents, no matter how mad they get, they can't do it any harm. So reflects a young agent trained to keep the peace by cunning.

Pauline Ashwell's 1960 story is a witty, inventive social-SF space opera. Clever, charming golden-age SF. Read it for a delightful tale narrated by the irrepressible Lizzie Lee, whose team engineers a shared delusion to stop two colony worlds from going to war, in a bright and funny problem-story.

In its time

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

Reading it

1 hr 36 min read (a novella, a full arc in one sitting or two).

Illustrated by

John Schoenherr