Frederic Arnold Kummer 42 min read

Captain Haller faces down five mutinous crewmen, scum of the space-ports, in his control room, his eyes slivers of gray granite, knowing it's now his nerve against their strength.

Frederic Arnold Kummer's 1941 story is a rousing space-opera adventure of mutiny and a fatal drift into a starship graveyard. Vivid, driven golden-age pulp. Read it for a taut tale of a hard captain, a treacherous crew, and the deadly stellar Sargasso that lies ahead of them.

In its time

Published in 1941, during the 1940s, the golden age begins.

Reading it

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

Illustrated by

Don Lynch