Traders Risk
Roger Dee
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Description
Roger Dee works his crew between jumps in Trader's Risk. The crew works in haste between jumps. One Chafi throws the ship out of hyperdrive close beside a sun's lone planet. Another, on the following jump, works the charts to name the system they are crossing.
Numbered alien crewmen and a trader's thin margins give the story its working texture. Dee writes space commerce as seamanship, charts, jumps, and cargo risks in place of canvas and ports. The Chafi, birdlike crew, supply the alien flavor without slowing the plot. Readers get a compact trading voyage in the Astounding manner, brisk, technical, and quietly fond of its nonhuman hands.
Catalog record
| CREATOR | Roger Dee |
|---|---|
| COLLECTION | BOOKS |
| FORMAT | TXT |
| FILE SIZE | 47 KB |
| VERSION | 1.0 |
| LICENSE | Public Domain |
| RIGHTS | PUBLIC DOMAIN |
| SOURCE | Project Gutenberg |