Murray Leinster 3 hr 59 min read

Bron Hoddan stows away on the very ship that came to hang all his relatives, for Grandpa always said pirates were really benefactors, and Bron has a long-cherished scheme of his own.

Murray Leinster's 1959 novel is a rollicking, inventive space-opera comedy. Witty, fast, hugely fun. Read it for prime Leinster, a young man from a planet of genial space pirates loose on a smug, well-heeled world, in a genial romp about ingenuity, respectability, and the uses of a bad reputation.

In its time

Published in 1959, during the 1950s, post-war optimism meets cold war anxiety.

Reading it

3 hr 59 min read (a novel-length work, settle in).

Illustrated by

Kelly Freas