Kenneth Harmon 15 min read

Silent as a ghost, the transport rides the invisible gravitational webs between the stars toward Sol, and in her stateroom, as she relaxes on her couch, Lenore is not alone.

Kenneth Harmon's 1955 story is an atmospheric social-SF space opera. Sharp, evocative golden-age SF. Read it for a moody story aboard a starship gliding home through the dark between worlds, where a woman traveler and a hidden passenger set a quiet, unsettling drama in motion.

In its time

Published in 1955, during the 1950s, post-war optimism meets cold war anxiety.

Reading it

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

Illustrated by

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