Dark Centauri

by John S. Glasby, Karl Zeigfreid

"My God!" he yelled. "What's happening now?" Stevens stared. Then he started abruptly to his feet. Even afterwards, when he looked back on the incident, he could never actually decide what really happened. He had a persistent, oddly unshakable memory of a man flowing suddenly into liquid.

Inside the blue and gray uniform of the Interstellar Passenger Service, the man began to melt, to change into a thick gooey substance that dripped and trickled away between the rising pillars of steel. Desperately, he fought down the rising sense of nausea that tugged at the muscles of his stomach. The picture was so utterly impossible that he screwed his eyes tightly to shut it out of his mind. When he looked again, there was nothing there and Blair was looking across at him, his jaw slack and an expression of stark disbelief in his dark eyes.

320 pages, Kindle Edition

First published April 1, 1954

About the author

John Stephen Glasby (23 September 1928 – 5 June 2011) was a prolific British author whose work spanned a range of popular genres. A professional research chemist and mathematician, he produced over 300 novels and short stories during the 1950s and 1960s, most of which were published pseudonymously under the Badger Books imprint.

Pseudonyms (listed alphabetically):

Chuck Adams
John Adams
R.L. Bowers
Tex Bradley
Berl Cameron
Craig Campbell
Max Chartair
Randall Conway
Ray Cosmic
John Crawford
J.B. Dexter
John Glasby
J.S. Glasby
Michael Hamilton
J.J. Hansby
D.K. Jennings
Marston Johns
Victor La Salle
Victor LaSalle
Peter Laynham
H.K. Lennard
Rand Le Page
Paul Lorraine
John C. Maxwell
A.J. Merak
H.J. Merak
John Morton
John E. Muller
J.L. Powers
Manning K. Robertson
Karl Zeigfreid