Fox B. Holden 1 hr 6 min read

Scout pilot Mason, prone to wrong answers, overshoots the galaxy's Rim entirely, a costly, dangerous blunder that flings him and his small crew toward the women-stealers of Thrayx.

Fox B. Holden's 1954 story is a rousing space-opera adventure. Vivid, driven golden-age pulp. Read it for a colorful pulp yarn of a hapless scout hurled past the edge of known space into peril and intrigue, where a nervous pilot must redeem his mistakes, in fast-moving, action-packed golden-age SF.

In its time

Published in 1954, during the 1950s, post-war optimism meets cold war anxiety.

Reading it

1 hr 6 min read (a novelette, room for a turn or two).