Alan Edward Nourse 2 hr 42 min read

Test pilot Greg Hunter and his brother, hunting a fortune in the asteroid belt, run afoul of the Jupiter Equilateral gang, a black raider, and a sinister bonanza between Mars and Jupiter.

Alan E. Nourse's 1958 novel is a fast, well-crafted colonization space opera of asteroid prospecting and skulduggery. Brisk, engaging golden-age SF. Read it for a rousing tale of frontier fortune-hunting in the asteroids, full of raiders, mysteries, and buried riches.

In its time

Published in 1958, during the 1950s, post-war optimism meets cold war anxiety.

Reading it

2 hr 42 min read (a novel-length work, settle in).

Illustrated by

Llewellyn