Stanley Mullen 27 min read

The Interplanetary Distress Call blazes across the board, and navigation officer Blaze Norman snaps alert: out between Jupiter and Saturn, the spaceliner Tellus is breaking up.

Stanley Mullen's 1950 story is a tense military space opera of a desperate rescue. Vivid, driven golden-age pulp. Read it for a rousing tale where the crew of the cruiser Scorpio races into the deadly void to save a doomed liner, and a green officer must prove himself when it counts.

In its time

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

Reading it

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