George O. Smith ~10 hr read

On the Venus Equilateral relay station, a great communications hub floating at a Trojan point, a band of engineers meets one crisis after another with ingenuity, slide rules, and sheer nerve.

George O. Smith's stories, collected 1947 with a Campbell introduction, are a beloved classic of hard-SF problem-solving. Clever, witty, influential. Read it for the definitive 'competent engineers' series, interplanetary radio relay, ingenious technical fixes, and the birth of a matter-duplicator, in warm, funny, idea-rich tales that helped define the golden age of hard science fiction.

In its time

Published in 1942, during the 1940s, the golden age begins.

Reading it

~10 hr read (a novel-length work, settle in).

Illustrated by

Sol Levin