Project Gutenberg 2020-11-27 Public domain in the USA. 149 Howard, Hayden 1925 2014 Howard, John Hayden Freas, Kelly 1922 2005 Freas, Frank Kelly The Luminous Blonde Produced from Planet Stories November 1952 Produced by Greg Weeks, Mary Meehan and the Online Distributed Proofreading Team at http://www.pgdp.net "The Luminous Blonde" by Hayden Howard is a science fiction novel written in the early 1950s. The story explores themes of personal relationships and the complexities of human interactions in a futuristic setting, particularly focusing on the dynamics between a husband and wife during a space voyage to Mars. In the narrative, newly appointed Commissioner for Economics for Mars, J. Edwin Elbert, finds himself in a tense and tumultuous situation aboard a spaceship. As the ship prepares for a crucial separation, Elbert grapples with both the operational aspects of the journey and his personal insecurities regarding his attractive and much younger wife, Landa. Their relationship is strained by jealousy and miscommunication, culminating in a panic when Elbert realizes his wife could be in danger as the spaceship prepares to split for their forty-two-day journey. The novel captures the absurdities of space travel while delving into the emotional undercurrents of a couple's interactions, showcasing both humor and tension against a science fiction backdrop. (This is an automatically generated summary.) Reading ease score: 87.0 (6th grade). Easy to read. en Science fiction Short stories Space ships -- Fiction Space travelers -- Fiction Spouses -- Fiction PS Text Category: Science-Fiction & Fantasy Category: Novels 37811 2025-07-25T09:40:09.176084 text/html 13737 2024-10-18T08:40:15 text/html 430565 2025-07-25T09:40:10.952239 application/epub+zip 429363 2025-07-25T09:40:09.609107 application/epub+zip 77426 2025-07-25T09:40:09.362054 application/epub+zip 461884 2025-07-25T09:40:12.208062 application/x-mobipocket-ebook 454852 2025-07-25T09:40:10.720086 application/x-mobipocket-ebook 103015 2022-09-28T19:36:00.538675 application/x-mobipocket-ebook 31204 2025-07-25T09:40:09.072066 text/plain; charset=us-ascii 11443 2024-10-18T08:40:15 text/plain; charset=us-ascii 17539 2025-07-25T09:40:12.352053 application/rdf+xml 29338 2025-07-25T09:40:09.468077 image/jpeg 5129 2025-07-25T09:40:09.413088 image/jpeg 420563 2025-07-25T09:40:09.188154 application/octet-stream application/zip Archives containing the RDF files for *all* our books can be downloaded at https://book.klll.cc/wiki/Gutenberg:Feeds#The_Complete_Project_Gutenberg_Catalog en.wikipedia