
Pete Dudley is a veteran pilot who hauls cargo between Earth and the Moon, his days a quiet rhythm of checks, instruments, and the endless gray of lunar craters. As he prepares for a routine landing, the sudden scent of perfume and a bold, lipstick‑splashed stranger materialize in his cockpit, claiming to be a stowaway bound for Luna. Kathi Foster, twenty‑one and fiercely determined, instantly turns the solitary flight into a tense negotiation of space, secrets, and survival.
Their clash of experience and youthful audacity fuels an uneasy partnership that threatens to unravel the mission’s calm. With the lunar colony’s fragile settlements and a looming Mars schedule hovering in the background, the pair must navigate not only technical hazards but also the hidden motives that brought Kathi aboard. Listeners are drawn into a gritty, near‑future world where personal ambition and the stark realities of space travel collide.
Language
en
Duration
~28 minutes (27K characters)
Publisher of text edition
Project Gutenberg
Credits
Produced by Greg Weeks, Mary Meehan and the Online Distributed Proofreading Team at http://www.pgdp.net
Release date
2012-10-06
Rights
Public domain in the USA.

1918–1997
A prolific American science-fiction writer, he built a long magazine career on brisk, idea-driven stories that appeared throughout the pulp and digest era. His work mixes adventure, humor, and classic mid-century genre imagination.
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