Barbara Constant 22 min read

Every Monday, Wednesday, and Friday, secretary Lucilla Brown comes to work half an hour early, and no one, least of all Lucilla, can quite explain the quiet reason why.

Barbara Constant's 1962 story is a warm, thoughtful colonization and social-SF tale. Gentle, humane golden-age SF. Read it for a quietly moving story that begins in an ordinary advertising office and opens outward toward something wondrous, in a tale about loneliness, connection, and the far reaches of the human spirit.

In its time

Published in 1962, during the 1960s, new wave revolutionizes the genre.

Reading it

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

Illustrated by

George Schelling