Ross Rocklynne 28 min read

Two asteroid-hustlers find exactly the wedge-shaped rock they were looking for, a claim that will make them rich, if they can only deliver it.

Ross Rocklynne's 1945 story pairs the flabbergasted Bob Parker and his partner Queazy in a fast, funny space-opera scheme involving a very special asteroid and a lot of orbital mechanics. Breezy, clever golden-age SF. Read it for a good-humored tale of prospectors, physics, and a get-rich-quick plan among the asteroids.

In its time

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

Reading it

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