Harry Harrison 30 min read

Whatever goes up must come down, including moon rockets. But there's no law saying what they must come down to.

Harry Harrison's 1963 story opens with an astronaut trapped in lunar dust, pleading for help, before its space-opera premise turns disquieting. Sharp, suspenseful golden-age SF. Read it for a tense tale where a return from the Moon lands somewhere very wrong indeed.

In its time

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

Reading it

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

Illustrated by

Lutjens