Crossroads of Space by A.G. Stangland:
Science Fiction Inventions, Technology and Ideas

"Mr. Stangland’s story gives us an insight into the great dramas that will take place in the vastness of interstellar space after its first conquest. This story pictures puny man against a background of strange almost devilish forces. Like microbes in an infinite world we see our space-men struggling to preserve man’s right of space conquest.

We must admit that what we know of the forces operating in interstellar space is insignificant. We believe, true enough, that space is an almost perfect vacuum. But is it? And if it is not what dangers, impossible for us on earth to envision, may confront the first men to dare the unknown.

We must await the first Columbus of space for the answer. But Mr. Stangland gives us one unusual view of it."


('Crossroads of Space' by Arthur Stangland)

Read the story here. Select an invention:

Fueling Island (Pie Pan)
A space station placed (and held) between distant planets in the solar system.

Suspension Room
A kind of prison cell; the prisoners were placed in suspended animation.

 

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