Stephen Bartholomew 24 min read

Rene Duport was the quiet member of the moonship's international crew, so quiet that it took several minutes before anyone noticed he'd jumped overboard, into open space.

Stephen Bartholomew's 1962 story opens on a shocking act aboard a lunar mission, building a tense hard-SF space-opera mystery. Sharp, suspenseful golden-age SF. Read it for a gripping story about the youngest man ever sent to the Moon and the inexplicable thing he does out there.

In its time

Published in 1962, during the 1960s, new wave revolutionizes the genre.

Reading it

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

Illustrated by

George Schelling