Turnover Point

Pop Ganlon is a worn-down spaceman haunting the Belt, a father hollowed out by the murder of his son, a Patrol officer killed in Lower Marsport. Living on freight runs and drink, he expects nothing from the frontier except more loss—until a desperate fugitive, John Kane, forces passage aboard The Luck. Cold, dangerous, and plainly guilty, Kane turns the voyage to Ley's Landing into a locked-room tension story in deep space. As the ship carries them onward, Pop studies his passenger and pieces together the truth: Kane's contempt for law, his stolen money and Patrol property, and the brutal connection to the son Pop loved. The revelation transforms their uneasy conversation into a reckoning with grief, justice, and the limits of endurance. At turnover point, Pop calmly lets Kane think he is about to die, then makes his final move. Instead of the standard half-turn, he completes a full 360-degree turn, sending The Luck away from its destination and out into the void. What begins as a grim frontier journey becomes a chilling revenge tale, where an ordinary old spaceman exacts judgment with the cold indifference of space itself. This edition has been fully restored with modern typesetting, custom cover design.