
Robbin Cutlass, a hardened space captain, finds himself the hunted after a daring raid leaves him with a massive bounty on his head. With the relentless Tri‑Planet Entente Space Patrol bearing down, he must push his battered vessel, the legendary Vulture, to the limits of its experimental Raven drive. As an aging ally, the brilliant but reclusive Doc Raven watches from a distant laboratory, the odds stack against Cutlass and his dwindling crew.
The opening thrusts listeners into a frantic chase through the dark reaches of the solar system, where ancient rivalries and family legacies collide. Cutlass confronts the raw fury of a fleet that outnumbers him, and the desperate gamble to outrun an enemy that seems determined to erase the last of the Cutlass buccaneers. The tension of a near‑fatal showdown and the promise of a daring escape set the stage for a high‑stakes adventure among the stars.
Language
en
Duration
~30 minutes (29K characters)
Publisher of text edition
Project Gutenberg
Original publisher
United States: Greenleaf Publishing Company, 1952.
Credits
Greg Weeks, Mary Meehan and the Online Distributed Proofreading Team at http://www.pgdp.net
Release date
2021-07-15
Rights
Public domain in the USA.
1923–1973
A mid-century pulp sci-fi writer with a mysterious life story, he published fast-moving tales of space adventure, future war, and strange worlds in the great magazine era of science fiction. Much about him remains hazy, which only adds to the curiosity around his work.
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