H. B. Fyfe 23 min read

Spaceways pilot Johnny Tolliver scowls at his crooked boss Jeffers, he'll ignore the graft running through the Ganymede colony, but he won't be suckered into the deal himself.

H. B. Fyfe's 1961 story is a wry social-SF space opera. Clever, engaging golden-age SF. Read it for a genial story of an honest pilot resisting a corrupt operation on a frontier moon, where his refusal lands him in an unexpected orbit of trouble, in a well-turned golden-age piece about integrity, intrigue, and cleverness under pressure.

In its time

Published in 1961, during the 1960s, new wave revolutionizes the genre.

Reading it

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

Illustrated by

Bernklau