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    The Sargasso of Space
    The Sargasso of Space
    The Sargasso of Space
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    The Sargasso of Space

    By Edmond Moore Hamilton

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    Helpless, doomed, into the graveyard of space floats the wrecked freighter Pallas.

    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherBooklassic
    Release dateJun 18, 2015
    ISBN9789635243587
    The Sargasso of Space

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      The Sargasso of Space - Edmond Moore Hamilton

      978-963-524-358-7

      Transcriber’s Note

      This etext was produced from Astounding Stories September 1931. Extensive research did not uncover any evidence that the U.S. copyright on this publication was renewed.

      CAPTAIN CRAIN faced his crew calmly. We may as well face the facts, men, he said. The ship's fuel-tanks are empty and we are drifting through space toward the dead-area.

      The twenty-odd officers and men gathered on the middle-deck of the freighter Pallas made no answer, and Crain continued:

      We left Jupiter with full tanks, more than enough fuel to take us to Neptune. But the leaks in the starboard tanks lost us half our supply, and we had used the other half before discovering that. Since the ship's rocket-tubes cannot operate without fuel, we are simply drifting. We would drift on to Neptune if the attraction of Uranus were not pulling us to the right. That attraction alters our course so that in three ship-days we shall drift into the dead-area.

      Rance Kent, first-officer of the Pallas, asked a question: Couldn't we, raise Neptune with the radio, sir, and have them send out a fuel-ship in time to reach us?

      It's impossible, Mr. Kent, Crain answered. Our main radio is dead without fuel to run its dynamotors, and our auxiliary set hasn't the power to reach Neptune.

      Why not abandon ship in the space-suits, asked Liggett, the second-officer, and trust to the chance of some ship picking us up?

      The captain shook his head. It would be quite useless, for we'd simply drift on through space with the ship into the dead-area.

      The score of members of the crew, bronzed space-sailors out of every port in the solar system, had listened mutely. Now, one of them, a tall tube-man, stepped forward a little.

      Just what is this dead-area, sir? he asked. I've heard of it, but as this is my first outer-planet voyage, I know nothing about it.

      I'll admit I know little more, said Liggett, save that a good many disabled ships have drifted into it and have never come out.

      THE dead area, Crain told them, "is a region of space ninety thousand miles across within Neptune's orbit, in which the ordinary gravitational attractions of the solar system are dead. This is because in that region the pulls of the sun and the outer planets exactly balance each other. Because of that, anything in the dead-area, will stay in there until time ends, unless it has power of its own. Many wrecked space-ships have drifted into it at one time or another, none ever emerging; and it's believed that there is a great mass

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