1950’s novelette: “The Statue” by Mari Wolf

Thanks to another generous fan of old pulp magazines at the Internet Archive, you can read or download for free “The Statue,” a science fiction novelette set on Mars, written by Mari Wolf, a prominent figure in fandom and the first wife of fellow science fiction author and fan columnist Rog Phillips, and illustrated by artist Bob Martin, as it was originally published in the January 1953 issue of If: Worlds of Science Fiction magazine.

"There is a time for doing and a time for going home. But where is home in an ever-changing universe?"