Rick Raphael 1 hr 25 min read

On the great continental thruways of the future, a Patrol sergeant rolls out into a coming storm aboard a highway cruiser the size of a house.

Rick Raphael's 1963 story imagines the North American Continental Thruway Patrol policing thousand-mile superhighways, its officers facing weather and wrecks at tremendous speed. Grounded, procedural hard SF rich in convincing detail. Read it for immersive golden-age SF about the highway cops of a fast, dangerous future.

In its time

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

Reading it

1 hr 25 min read (a novella, a full arc in one sitting or two).

Illustrated by

John Schoenherr