Daniel F. Galouye 29 min read

With their chances hanging on a prayer they must answer themselves, salvagers pick over a wrecked Vegan robot-trader in a vine-choked gorge.

Daniel F. Galouye's 1957 story sends Angus McIntosh and Bruce Drummond to a downed alien 'clunker' ship, where the empty hold and one man's unease hint that this salvage is anything but simple. Atmospheric post-apocalyptic SF from the author of 'Dark Universe.' Read it for tense, mood-rich golden-age adventure among the wreckage of a fallen future.

In its time

Published in 1957, during the 1950s, post-war optimism meets cold war anxiety.

Reading it

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

Illustrated by

Virgil Finlay