Plague Ship (1956) is the second novel in Andre Norton’s celebrated Solar Queen series, following the adventures of the Free Trader ship and its crew across the interstellar trading lanes of the far future. When the Solar Queen returns from a newly contacted planet, its crew are quarantined under suspicion of carrying a deadly alien disease — and must fight to clear their name and their ship before powerful merchant rivals use the crisis to destroy them.
Andre Norton was one of the most prolific and influential science fiction writers of the mid-twentieth century, with a particular gift for space adventure that felt genuinely lived-in and dangerous. The free EPUB download brings this classic of science fiction adventure to new generations of readers.