Harold L. Goodwin 3 hr read

What's shaped like a sting ray and flies over Chesapeake Bay? Sheltering from a storm, young inventor Rick Brant spots the eerie flying stingaree, one of which is suspected of kidnapping a man.

Harold L. Goodwin's 1963 novel is a brisk juvenile science-adventure from the beloved Rick Brant series. Fast, clever, wholesome period SF. Read it for a rousing boys' mystery where scientific know-how untangles an eerie 'flying saucer' riddle along the Eastern Shore.

In its time

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

Reading it

3 hr read (a novel-length work, settle in).