Chapter 1 Thrill Cruise Chapter 2 Discovered Chapter 3 Through the Meteor-Moons Chapter 4 The Vestans Chapter 5 Night Attack Chapter 6 Asteroid Horror

Grim death was the only romance to be found on this world that boasted a thousand moons.

Lance Kenniston needs a space cruiser to take him from Mars to Vespa in the asteroid belt. The only problem is that the only cruiser available has already been chartered by the young heiress Gloria Loring. And the only way Kenniston is going to get the cruiser is if Gloria goes as well.

This classic science fiction short story by Edmond Hamilton was first published in Amazing Stories in December 1942.

Edmond Hamilton (1904-1977) was an American author of science fiction stories and novels during the mid-Twentieth Century. His career as a science fiction writer began with the publication of the short story "The Monster God of Mamurth," which appeared in the August 1926 issue of the classic magazine of alternative fiction, Weird Tales. Hamilton quickly became a central member of the remarkable group of Weird Tales writers assembled by editor Farnsworth Wright, which included H. P. Lovecraft and Robert E. Howard.

Edmond is credited as the author of the first hardcover compilation of what would eventually come to be known as the science fiction genre, The Horror on The Asteroid and Other Tales of Planetary Horror (1936)

In 1946 Hamilton began writing for DC Comics, specializing in stories for their characters Superman and Batman.

Hamilton was married to fellow scifi author Leigh Brackett (1915-1978).