The Observation Post
by Allen M. Steele
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’tpossibly be Russian
technology.
The world was on the brink of nuclear war, and no one knew it yet. Almost no one that,
is.
“The Observation Post” by Allen M. Steele, in Asimov’s Science Fiction, September 2011.