The Gently Orbiting Blonde

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The Gently Orbiting Blonde

by John Victor Peterson

EN·~22 minutes·1 chapter

Chapters

1 total

22:09

Description

A brilliant but absent‑minded physicist at White Sands spends his evenings tinkering with a secret anti‑gravity project, even on his wedding night. When his wife Helene slips out in a hurry, he dives deeper into the basement lab, hoping a tiny circuit change will unlock a breakthrough. A sudden surge throws him off the floor, and the living room transforms into an odd training ground where he begins to float—and to wonder whether his obsession is worth the cost.

Caught in a bewildering barrel‑roll, he watches the chandelier become a miniature sun, and around it spins Gladys, the striking blonde who seems to glide in a perfect, gentle orbit. Their chemistry crackles amid the strange physics, mixing witty banter with the tension of a high‑stakes experiment. Listeners are invited into a retro‑futuristic tale where scientific curiosity, romance, and a hint of danger all hover just out of reach.

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Language

en

Duration

~22 minutes (21K characters)

Publisher of text edition

Project Gutenberg

Original publisher

United States: Royal Publications, Inc,1957.

Credits

Greg Weeks, Mary Meehan and the Online Distributed Proofreading Team at http://www.pgdp.net

Release date

Jun 22, 2022

Rights

Public domain in the USA.

About the author

John Victor Peterson

John Victor Peterson

A mid-20th-century science fiction writer, he published energetic stories of telepathy, space adventure, and strange futures in pulp and digest magazines. His work still circulates through public-domain editions and audio recordings, keeping his brisk, idea-driven fiction alive for new readers.

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