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The Sargasso of Space, by Edmond Hamilton
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Title: The Sargasso of Space
Author: Edmond Hamilton
Release Date: May 16, 2009 [EBook #28832]
Language: English
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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.
[Illustration: She was floating along the wreck-pack's edge.]
The Sargasso of Space
By Edmond Hamilton
Helpless, doomed, into the graveyard of space floats the wrecked freighter Pallas.
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-tub