
A routine patrol turns into a desperate race when a luxury spaceliner collapses in the void between Jupiter and Saturn. The crew of the cruiser Scorpio receives a frantic distress call: half the ship’s power has failed, deadly radiation is spilling, and only a handful of lifeboats remain. Young navigation officer Blaze Norman must quickly plot a course through treacherous space while his seasoned colleague Harald pushes the cruiser’s aging engines to their limits, testing both the ship and the rookie’s nerves.
As the Scorpio barrels toward the burning wreck, the crew braces for the brutal acceleration and the unknown hazards that await. With limited time and scant information about any hidden threats, the mission becomes a test of skill, courage, and trust in a crew that has never faced such a calamity together. Listeners will be drawn into the tension of a high‑stakes rescue set against the stark beauty of deep space.
Language
en
Duration
~36 minutes (35K characters)
Publisher of text edition
Project Gutenberg
Credits
Greg Weeks, Mary Meehan and the Online Distributed Proofreading Team at http://www.pgdp.net
Release date
2021-03-07
Rights
Public domain in the USA.

1911–1974
A museum curator by profession and a pulp storyteller by passion, he brought a thoughtful, literary touch to science fiction and fantasy magazines of the 1940s and 1950s. His work often mixed imagination with psychology, myth, and a quietly unsettling sense of wonder.
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