Joseph Samachson 24 min read

It was ridiculous, incredible, against all reason, but it had happened: the ship was marooned in free space, its bickering crew stranded between two blazing stars.

Joseph Samachson's 1954 story (as William Morrison) is a sharp hard-SF space opera about ingenuity against impossible odds. Clever, gripping golden-age SF. Read it for a 'mistake' story where quarreling men, stuck in the void, must prove that spirit outweighs mere size and power.

In its time

Published in 1954, during the 1950s, post-war optimism meets cold war anxiety.

Reading it

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