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Title: Gold in the Sky

Author: Alan Edward Nourse

Illustrator: Llewellyn

Release Date: December 17, 2007 [EBook #23882]
Last updated: January 21, 2009

Language: English

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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 Science
Fiction Stories September 1958. Extensive research did not uncover any
evidence 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 the
stars.

Major Briarton. A government man--his creed was law and order.

[Illustration: They fought with whatever was handy, not bothering to
figure the odds.]

1. Trouble Times Two

The sun was glowing dull red as it slipped down behind the curving
horizon 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 enough
to hold him, and shifted his long legs against the brace-webbing, trying
to get them comfortable.

He knew he was afraid ..