George O. Smith 24 min read

Captain Edwards hands Lieutenant Jeffries a single order: six months, unattached, to track down and convict the man known as Black Morgan, the Pirate, a working vacation Jeffries never asked for.

George O. Smith's 1946 story is a rousing space-opera adventure of a lawman on the trail of a phantom raider. Fast, engaging golden-age SF. Read it for a genial pulp yarn where a Solar Police officer is turned loose to catch an impossible pirate, in a brisk chase across the spaceways.

In its time

Published in 1946, during the 1940s, the golden age begins.

Reading it

24 min read (a short story, a single idea, delivered and gone).

Illustrated by

Swenson