C. C. MacApp 37 min read

A camouflaged ship melts into the ice of a Jovian moon, carrying a blind employer, a wary pilot, and a fortune in alien treasure.

C. C. MacApp's 1963 story lands Gil Murdoch's disguised vessel on battered Ganymede, past the Terran patrols, for a rendezvous with aliens who spotted them long ago, and a pilot with private reasons to look before he leaps. Solid, atmospheric space opera thick with suspicion and cold moons. Read it for tense outer-system adventure with a treasure-hunt heart.

In its time

Published in 1963, during the 1960s, new wave revolutionizes the genre.

Reading it

37 min read (a novelette, room for a turn or two).

Illustrated by

John Giunta