An extract from George O. Smith’s short story QRM INTERPLANETARY (1942), the first of his works about a space station set up to relay radio messages between Earth, Mars and Venus: On Monday, Francis Burbank sent around a communique removing the option of free messages for the personnel. On Tuesday, he remanded the years-long custom of permitting the supply ships to carry, free, packages from friends at home. On Wednesday, Burbank decided that there should be a curfew on the one and only beer ...
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