Rosel George Brown 17 min read

Forty women file off a colony ship onto a newly-breathable world, suitcases floating light in the low gravity, and big, wholesome Annie steps up first to break the ice on virgin ground.

Rosel George Brown's 1959 story is a warm, sharp colonization and social-SF tale. Humane, witty golden-age SF. Read it for a fresh story of women pioneers settling a raw new planet, told with humor and real character by one of the era's notable women writers, in a well-observed golden-age piece about frontier life, community, and starting over on virgin ground.

In its time

Published in 1959, during the 1950s, post-war optimism meets cold war anxiety.

Reading it

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