GOLD IN THE SKY
By ALAN E. NOURSE
ILLUSTRATOR LLEWELLYN
BOOK-LENGTH NOVEL COMPLETE IN THIS ISSUE
[Transcriber's Note: This etext was produced from Amazing ScienceFiction Stories September 1958. Extensive research did not uncover anyevidence that the U.S. copyright on this publication was renewed.]
CONTENTS
1. Trouble Times Two
2. Jupiter Equilateral
3. Too Many Warnings
4. "Between Mars and Jupiter...."
5. The Black Raider
6. The Last Run of the Scavenger
7. Prisoners
8. The Scavengers of Space
9. The Invisible Man
10. The Trigger
11. The Haunted Ship
12. The Sinister Bonanza
13. Pinpoint in Space
14. The Missing Asteroid
15. The Final Move
YOU WILL MEET—
Greg Hunter. Test pilot—happy only when his life hung in the balance.
Tom Hunter. A pioneer—his frontier was hidden in test tubes.
Johnny Coombs. A prospector—he returned from the asteroids too soon.
Merrill Tawney. An industrialist—he sought plunder even beyond thestars.
Major Briarton. A government man—his creed was law and order.
They fought with whatever was handy, not bothering tofigure the odds.
1. Trouble Times Two
The sun was glowing dull red as it slipped down behind the curvinghorizon of Mars, but Gregory Hunter was not able to see it.
There was no viewscreen in the ship's cabin; it was too tiny for that.Greg twisted around in the cockpit that had been built just big enoughto hold him, and shifted his long legs against the brace-webbing, tryingto get them comfortable.
He knew he was afraid ... but nobody else knew that, not even thecaptain waiting at the control board on the satellite, and in spite ofthe fear Greg Hunter would not have traded places at this moment withanyone else in the universe.
He had worked too hard and waited too long for this moment.
He heard the count-down monitor clicking in his ears, and his handsclenc