Alfred Coppel 11 min read

Renegade skipper Ron Carnavon scuttled the treasure ship Thunderbird off Triton, and now, with a price on his head, he alone carries the chart to her drifting, corpse-spilling wreck.

Alfred Coppel's 1951 story is a rousing space-opera adventure. Vivid, driven golden-age pulp. Read it for a colorful pulp yarn of barratry, treasure, and pursuit among the moons of Neptune, where a cunning fugitive is hunted through the spacelanes for a fortune only he can find, in the fast-moving, wonder-and-peril style of the classic space-adventure magazines.

In its time

Published in 1951, during the 1950s, post-war optimism meets cold war anxiety.

Reading it

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

Illustrated by

Herman B. Vestal