Herrell McCray was plotting course corrections on the Long Jump from Earth to the colonies of Betelgeuse Nine. Five minutes later he is alone in a room no bigger than a prison cell, somewhere in the gas cloud of the Orion Nebula, facing a parade of terrors and a woman who may be as trapped as he is.
A tight, clever novelette from the January 1963 issue of Worlds of If, by one of science fiction’s sharpest writers. Download the free EPUB.