Vandals of the Void

Cover: Alex Schomburg.

The only thing teen-age Dick Murdock knew about space piracy was what he read in the papers – until he flew from Venus to join his father at the Moon's observatory. During that flight he saw a sample of what pirates could do – even in 1985. For along the trans-space orbits that connected Mother Earth with its colonies on Mars and Venus hung the lifeless hulk of a spaceship blasted and looted by interplanetary bandits...