Series
Matter Transmitter
Harry Harrison · 4 novelettes · 5 short stories · 1 collection · 1968–1970
One Step from Earth collects Harry Harrison's linked stories about matter-transmission technology, following the social and personal fallout as instantaneous 'stepper' travel remakes work, colonization, and crime across the solar system. Each story stands alone but shares the same near-future premise and inventive extrapolation of a single new technology. It was published as one volume in 1970.
Summary by Loreful, from public sources
Reading order
The order the books came out.
Map
Matter Transmitter at the centre, its books fanned around what holds them. Pick anything for its details, and zoom out for similar series in orbit — the reading order above lists the same books as text.
Stats
By decade
- 1960s4
- 1970s6
Shape
4 novelettes · 5 short stories · 1 collection
1 author · completed series
reads like:science fictionspace explorationother star systemsfar futureadventurousadult
Mood
Bright and intense: 78% of this series' placed works, the catalog's 44%.
this series · the catalog · one dot = one book9 of 10 works carry a tone
Edges of the map
- Pressuredarkest · calmest
- One Step from Earthbrightest
- No War, or Battle's Soundmost intense