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Trouble with Emily
It must have been one of the big colonial transports of the type
which had carried four generation of colonists between the stars
before the hyperdrive made such gargantuan ships obsolete, Conway
though, as he stared at the great tear-drop shape framed in the
direct vision port beside O'Mara's desk.
'Trouble with Emily' is the second official Sector General short
story to see print, and its also my personal favourite. Mainly,
I confess, because of the dinosaur-alien named after one of the
Brontë sisters -- Emily Brontosaurus. O'Mara to Conway:
"I must say that I feel a pathological interest in a mind which
thinks like that . . ." Conway groans in sympathy. As
did Bob Shaw, and every other member of the Belfast Science Fiction
Group.
Synopsis by graham Andrews |
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First Published:
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- NEW WORLDS No 77, November 1958
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Publishing History:
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- Out of this World 2, Blackie and Sons, May 1961
- Hospital Station (see under Books);
- Out of this World Choice Blackie, 1972, edited by Williams-Ellis/Owen.
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