Boy Meets Dyevitza

Name: Boy Meets Dyevitza
Author: Robert F. Young

Gordon Andrews, a captain in the United States Space Force, lands on Venus and encounters Major Sonya Mikhailovna of the Soviet Space Force. Both are surprised to find each other on Venus, a planet previously thought uninhabited by humans. They soon discover that Venus is home to a bronze-age civilization with strict moral codes. When the Venusians see Gordon and Sonya together without the symbolic metal collars that denote marriage, they are shocked and quickly arrange a wedding ceremony for the two astronauts. The Venusians' collars are made of a unique metal with magnetic properties that bind Gordon and Sonya together, preventing them from leaving Venus separately. As they adapt to their new life, they fall in love, and Sonya becomes pregnant. This unexpected development leads to a diplomatic breakthrough on Earth, as the impending birth of a child with both American and Soviet heritage becomes a symbol of peace. The news of the pregnancy prompts a summit between world leaders, resulting in improved international relations and plans for a joint mission to Venus. The story concludes with the birth of their child, Pëtr Gordonovitch Andrews, who grows up to become a prominent ambassador for peace, successfully preventing a global war.

By Robert F. Young · First published 1947 · Genre: Science Fiction, Space Opera, Romance · 7,067 words

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_For the incurable romantics among us, the power of love to conquer everything cannot be overestimated. And so let us read this gentle, pleasant, warm-hearted tale, knowing as we do that the story it tells is very likely impossible, but yet hoping, perhaps, that it could all end this way._

A thrilling news bulletin, dated September 11, 1996, was recently handed to me by an assistant who is too young to remember the star over Moscow, and it is toward him and others like him that the following history is directed. If it resembles fiction more than it does fact, the similarity is wholly intentional, for it is only through fiction that the past can be brought back to life.

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Work type: Short story
Author: Robert F. Young
Date: 1947 CE
Language: English
Genres: Science Fiction, Space Opera, Romance, Political Satire, Adventure
Length: 7,067 words
Structure: 1 section, 95 paragraphs
Reading fit: Standard (8th-9th Grade)

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Genres

Science Fiction — Set on Venus with interplanetary travel, advanced technology, and speculative scientific premises, the narrative firmly anchors itself in science fiction.
Space Opera — The novel features grand, sweeping adventures in an extraterrestrial setting with larger-than-life characters and dramatic interplanetary conflicts.
Romance — A central love story between an American and a Soviet protagonist drives the emotional arc, blending personal passion with cosmic circumstances.
Political Satire — The plot satirizes Cold War dynamics and governmental maneuvering, using exaggerated political and media commentaries as a narrative tool.