Jr. L. J. Stecher 15 min read

A tramp freighter can carry almost anything, the trick is whether its threadbare skipper can carry it profitably.

L. J. Stecher's 1960 story finds a merchant hunting for a ship to lift his perishable Gasha root off-planet before it spoils, and a deep-spacer captain with a hold to fill and a peculiar cargo problem. Wry, easygoing space opera about the unglamorous business of interstellar freight. Read it for good-humored golden-age SF about tramp starships and the odd loads they haul.

In its time

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

Reading it

15 min read (a short story, a single idea, delivered and gone).

Illustrated by

Dick Francis