Gerald Vance 9 min read

'We moor in ten minutes', but the radium-laden freighter is crawling through fog, and its pilot is Lucky Larson, the screwiest, most unpredictable void-trotter ever to fly.

Gerald Vance's 1942 story is a fast, fun space opera starring a wild-card hero whose luck is the stuff of legend. Colorful, breezy golden-age pulp. Read it for a rousing tale of a precious cargo, a fog-bound approach, and a pilot who somehow always comes out on top.

In its time

Published in 1942, during the 1940s, the golden age begins.

Reading it

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

Illustrated by

Robert Fuqua