The Wind Between the Worlds

Name: The Wind Between the Worlds
Price: 1 USD
Availability: InStock
Rating: 3.38 (33333 reviews)
Author: del Rey Lester
ISBN: 9780795321238

About the Story: Del Rey wrote the original (and much longer) version of this novella many years earlier, was unable to place it and only hauled it from the trunk when Horace Gold in mid-1950 solicited something for his new magazine. THE WIND BETWEEN THE WORLDS is at least in conception a standard ASTOUNDING problem-solving story (interstellar matter transmitter is sabotaged; Earth and alien ports are in danger, resourceful engineer-protagonist figures out the solution) with a standard STARTLING STORIES subplot (engineer and his pretty female assistant are deeply attracted but he’s too dedicated to his job to get fresh). The premise however is ingenious - alien cultures intervene and as a result of this Earth is given the means for interstellar trade before the planet has even achieved space travel. Teleportation as an instrument of routine commerce (and profit) was a fairly original concept at the time this story was published. Del Rey’s altered culture is lived-in, letting the ...

Author: del Rey Lester

ISBN: 9780795321238

Year of publication: 2011

Genre: Science fiction

Number of pages: 62

Reading time: 1 h. 2 min.

Formats: FB2, EPUB, PDF

Buy for 1$