Runaway

by Alfred Coppel

Unknown Binding

About the author

Alfredo Jose de Arana-Marini Coppel was an American author. He served as a fighter pilot in the United States Army Air Forces during World War II. After his discharge, he started his career as a writer. He became one of the most prolific pulp authors of the 1950s and 1960s, adopting the pseudonyms Robert Cham Gilman and A.C. Marin and writing for a variety of pulp magazines and later "slick" publishers. Though writing in a variety of genres, including action thrillers, he is known for his science fiction stories which comprise both short stories and novels.

Reviews

[Jane Roxanne Beamon · Rating 5 out of 5]

The blazing heart; the nuclear reaction; of a ship is exposed in a collision. And that heart glimpses the Sun. And yearns to go home.

[Forked Radish · Rating 4 out of 5]

“Mars began to show a definite disc” Whaaat?! “Disc of Venus” Too! Lucky he didn’t write “Disc of Earth” or the men in white coats would have taken him away!