The James White Information Site

The High Road

First published
1959
Words
12,500

A harsh, angry voice was saying: ". . . Eight . . . Seven . . . Six . . ." as if each numeral was a dirty word.

Editorial blether: "Dr. Conway and the Sector General hospital staff are taking a well-earned vacation at the moment so author James White has himself returned to Earth to recount a story of early spaceflight. There is more than one road to a given goal and it depends upon which one you take to get there first." 'Early spaceflight' is painfully correct. I'm afraid that 'The High Road has dated in all the wrong ways.* Jim took the auctorial Low Road, this one (and only) time.

*Unlike, say, Henry Kuttner's Fury (1947). Or, say again, The Secret Visitors (see under Books).

Synopsis by
Graham Andrews

In magazines

Title Language Editor Date
New Worlds 87, October 1959 cover
New Worlds 87, October 1959 English John Carnell October 1959
New Worlds Science Fiction (US), May 1960 cover
New Worlds, May 1960 (US edition) English Hans Stefan Santesson May 1960
Publication notes

NEW WORLDS No 87, October 1959 New Worlds US Reprint Edition, May 1960

Data sources
James White Information (original site). Synopsis by Graham Andrews.
ISFDB title record (CC BY 4.0).