
Marooned on the hostile surface of Titan after a violent warp‑eddy tears their ship, the Carefree, apart, a rag‑tag crew must scramble to survive. With the radio smashed and communication cut off, the unlikely new commander—Gregory Malcolm, a bespectacled office secretary turned captain—must rely on his theoretical knowledge of astrogation and the gritty pragmatism of Sparks, the ship’s red‑haired radioman, to keep the vessel upright long enough for a chance at rescue.
As the crew navigates the alien landscape, they confront dwindling supplies, unpredictable atmospheric storms, and the strain of leadership thrust upon an untested civilian. Tensions rise between the disciplined officers and the nervous technicians, while Malcolm’s calm, measured decisions clash with Sparks’s blunt realism. Listeners will be drawn into the claustrophobic corridors of the damaged yacht, feeling every flicker of hope and every breath of dread as the stranded team fights to rebuild a foothold on a world that seems intent on swallowing them whole.
Language
en
Duration
~2 hours (125K 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
2020-08-26
Rights
Public domain in the USA.

1908–2006
A prolific American writer of science fiction and fantasy, he helped shape the pulp-magazine era with brisk, imaginative stories and later wrote for radio, television, and comics. His work stayed in print for decades, earning him lasting recognition from the genre world.
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