Postmark Ganymede

Hal Preston, a proud former Space Patrolman, is dumped into the Postal Service and sent on what feels like a humiliating backwater assignment: carrying mail to distant Ganymede. Bitter at the downgrade, he boards a mail ship escorted by two old Patrol comrades, only to learn that this new job is every bit as dangerous as the old one. Before the run is over, pirate ships strike in the asteroid belt, and his friends pay a deadly price to keep the mail moving. When Preston finally reaches Ganymede, he discovers an even worse crisis: the colony is sealed off by a ring of hostile iceworms and desperate for relief. Forced to choose between pride and responsibility, he decides the mail must get through. Using his Patrol training, nerve, and quick thinking, he rigs his ship's fuel tank into a weapon, burns a path through the alien swarm, and blasts his way to the airlock. Fast-paced and vividly imaginative, this is a tale of space adventure, grit, and hard-won heroism. This edition has been fully restored with modern typesetting, custom cover design.