Ray Cummings 1 hr 11 min read

'You never had the real details of last year's tragic voyage,' Fred Penelle begins, Earth-Moon Flight 9, most of it suppressed by nervous diplomats, but the Grebhar revolution is over now.

Ray Cummings's 1940 story is a fast space-opera adventure of intrigue aboard a doomed space liner. Vivid, driven golden-age pulp. Read it for a rousing tale of a Shadow Squadman caught up in a Venusian revolution and sabotage in space, told by a founding pulp master.

In its time

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

Reading it

1 hr 11 min read (a novelette, room for a turn or two).

Illustrated by

Frank R. Paul