When a starliner breaks up, a handful of survivors, among them Deston and his wife Barbara, find themselves stranded in subspace, cut off from normal space and its rules. As they learn what they can now do, and talk over what it will mean for the galaxy, they have to work out whether they can ever return.
A late novelette from the father of space opera, first printed in Astounding in 1960. Download the free EPUB.