Jesse F. Bone 49 min read

The Dauntless is one of the most powerful ships in the Confederation navy, yet in the coming showdown with the alien Eglani, victory will not go to the mighty.

Jesse F. Bone's 1961 story is a sharp military-SF space opera. Clever, thoughtful golden-age SF. Read it for a well-turned story that questions the logic of overwhelming force, where a mighty warship faces an enemy who cannot be beaten by firepower alone, in a golden-age piece about the limits of might and the true nature of a weapon.

In its time

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

Reading it

49 min read (a novelette, room for a turn or two).

Illustrated by

Bernklau