Randall Garrett 27 min read

The submarine Ambitious Brill returns to the Brooklyn Navy Yard after too many weeks at sea, a strange voyage with too much brass aboard, made entirely underwater but for one careful surfacing.

Randall Garrett's (David Gordon's) 1963 story is a clever hard-SF and social-SF tale. Sharp, engaging golden-age SF. Read it for an inventive story that opens on a mysterious naval voyage and unfolds a science-fictional secret, told with Garrett's characteristic craft and wit, in a well-turned golden-age piece with a satisfying revelation beneath its ordinary surface.

In its time

Published in 1963, during the 1960s, new wave revolutionizes the genre.

Reading it

27 min read (a novelette, room for a turn or two).

Illustrated by

George Schelling