A World Is Born

Fairly lame, though not untypical for the era.
The sexist stereotypes and setting on a fictionalized Mercury that bears no plausible resemblance to what we know Mercury is like have not aged well.
I did not find the characters particularly engaging.
Maybe if I were 14 in 1949 (and it was still 1949!), I might have found it more engrossing.
As it is, meh.