The story finally found a home at what was then the very bottom of the field— Planet Stories, which paid a maximum one-half cent a word and specialized in action stories that took place anywhere but on Earth.
“The story doesn’t fit our book in any way,” Malcolm Reiss, the editor, told me, “and it’s dangerous as hell, but I figure this one is for God. An editor is entitled to at least one for God.”
Written 1947 / Published 1948