Jerome Bixby 19 min read

Amid the clatter of Boat Bed 52, the mountainous crewman Rhiannon sings a rough spacer's chantey as he polishes the fins and snouts of starships, the earthy opening of a colorful space yarn.

Jerome Bixby's 1949 story is a rousing space-opera adventure. Vivid, atmospheric golden-age pulp. Read it for a colorful pulp yarn set among the working spacehands who service the great ships, rich with the grimy, boisterous flavor of the spaceways, in the vivid, character-driven style of the classic space-adventure magazines.

In its time

Published in 1949, during the 1940s, the golden age begins.

Reading it

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

Illustrated by

Herman B. Vestal