Flight Into the Unknown

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Flight Into the Unknown

by Tom W. Harris

EN·~17 minutes

Chapters

Description

Bailey’s first voyage beyond Earth quickly turns into a nightmare when a meteor shatters his ship’s hull, sending him spiraling through the black void. With no gravity and his visor blown off, he clings to Captain DiCredico, who spins the remaining vessel to create a makeshift pull that steadies the crew. The abrupt shift from weightless terror to a dizzying artificial “down” forces everyone to relearn how to walk on walls and ceilings while their nerves scream for normalcy.

Once the spin stabilizes, the crew must confront a silent, endless expanse while picking up fragmented transmissions from a stranded ship called the Galileo. The voice crackles with fear, describing unseen “monsters” that can only be felt, not seen, and a looming threat that has already claimed lives. As Bailey takes the radar post, he feels the weight of both his own survival and the desperate hope that someone, somewhere, will answer the call before the unknown darkness closes in.

Details

Language

en

Duration

~17 minutes (16K 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

2021-05-18

Rights

Public domain in the USA.

About the author

TW

Tom W. Harris

A mid-century science fiction writer whose stories mixed space travel, strange technology, and a lively sense of adventure. His work appeared in 1950s pulp magazines and still has the fast, imaginative energy that makes classic SF fun to revisit.

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