Tom W. Harris 13 min read

Young Bailey falls endlessly through the dark, scattered like a seed when a meteor hulled the ship, a comrade's terrified voice still crackling in his headphones.

Tom W. Harris's 1957 story opens on vertiginous disaster in deep space, building a tense, hallucinatory space-opera tale. Vivid, harrowing golden-age SF. Read it for a gripping story of catastrophe and survival, falling with its hero into the unknown.

In its time

Published in 1957, during the 1950s, post-war optimism meets cold war anxiety.

Reading it

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