Robert F. Young 1 hr 2 min read

They called him 'The Jet-propelled Dutchman,' though he was neither, Captain Nathaniel Drake, who searches every port he touches for a certain woman, in the hope of redeeming himself at last.

Robert F. Young's 1963 story is a lyrical social-SF and space-opera reworking of the Flying Dutchman legend. Elegant, romantic golden-age SF. Read it for a poignant tale of a wandering spaceman's endless quest for a saint named Annabelle Leigh, and the redemption he seeks.

In its time

Published in 1963, during the 1960s, new wave revolutionizes the genre.

Reading it

1 hr 2 min read (a novelette, room for a turn or two).

Illustrated by

Ed Emshwiller