Milton A. Rothman 36 min read

Jim Britten watches Professor Glover's spacesuited body twinkle away among the stars, flung off the space station to plummet toward the blazing sun, and knows it was no accident.

Milton A. Rothman's 1957 story opens on a chilling orbital murder, building a hard-SF whodunit aboard a vast space station. Sharp, suspenseful golden-age SF. Read it for a gripping tale that pairs real orbital mechanics with a cold-blooded killing a thousand miles above the Earth.

In its time

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

Reading it

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

Illustrated by

Richard Kluga