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The Gravity Business

James E. Gunn

First published January 1956
Type Short Fiction
Length Novelette

Synopsis

Four generations of men have been stranded on a planet. The grandfather of the family had invented a gravity drive but lost the family fortune. Now the entire family is looking for metals for other solar systems. One planet looks very promising, but when they land on it, their gravity drive stops working. There is one very strange looking alien on the planet, though.

Publications (4)

Date Publication Publisher Type Page
January 1956 Galaxy Science Fiction, January 1956 Galaxy Publishing Corporation MAGAZINE 63
March 1956 Galaxy Science Fiction, No. 36 Strato Publications MAGAZINE 27
September 2015 The Gravity Business Project Gutenberg Chapbook
January 2016 The 11th Science Fiction Megapack Wildside Press Anthology