Chester Cohen 7 min read

In the silence of a ship bound for an unexplored planet, six young space pilots relive the fateful meeting of the Junior Rocketeers, the expedition they were forbidden to make.

Chester Cohen's 1941 story sends idealistic young explorers on a defiant hard-SF voyage into the unknown. Earnest, adventurous golden-age SF. Read it for a story of youthful pioneers who set out against orders to extend the knowledge of man among the unexplored planets.

In its time

Published in 1941, during the 1940s, the golden age begins.

Reading it

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