In 1962, Ensign Floyd Moore is the communications officer for the blimp Centurion patrolling the Caribbean for Russian shipments of nuclear missiles to Cuba. But what he and his lieutenant stumble upon on the larger Inagua island couldn’t possibly be Russian technology.
—Michael Main
The world was on the brink of nuclear war, and no one knew it yet. Almost no one that, is.

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  1. “The Observation Post,” as by Allen M. Steele, in Asimov’s Science Fiction, September 2011.
  2. audio reading.
    The Observation Post, as by Allen M. Steele, in Timeless Time Travel Tales, edited by Allan Kaster (Audiotext, 29 February 2012) [audio].
  3. audio reading.
    The Observation Post, as by Allen M. Steele , StarShipSofa #228, 7 March 2012 [audio].
  4. canonical byline.
    The Observation Post by Allen Steele, in Tales of Time and Space (Fantastic Books, April 2015).