A. R. Stuart 32 min read

Fresh off selling a platinum-rich asteroid, a rowdy space crew hits the spaceport bar, and stumbles into a beer-trust racket.

A. R. Stuart's 1945 story rides with the brawling, hard-drinking crew of prospectors, Outhouse Murphy, Listless Lomack, and the astrophysicist narrator, into a comic tale of interplanetary intrigue over the galaxy's most important beverage. Rowdy, good-humored golden-age space opera. Read it for boisterous pulp fun with a crew you'd want to buy a round.

In its time

Published in 1945, during the 1940s, the golden age begins.

Reading it

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

Illustrated by

A. Murphy