Bob Olsen 34 min read

Having run the Goddard through a nightmare belt of pelting planetoids, Captain Verger opens the cabin door, and recoils at a smell that has no business aboard a space freighter.

Bob Olsen's 1940 story spins a genial space-opera adventure from a strange odor aboard a space freighter. Fun, colorful golden-age pulp. Read it for a rousing tale where a weary captain's need for rest is interrupted by a mystery that fills his ship with a most peculiar rhythm.

In its time

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

Reading it

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

Illustrated by

Frank R. Paul