Captain Future 13 - The Face Of The Deep (Winter 1943) - Plot & Excerpts
But that had been years ago. Tonight she lay grim and black in her dock at New York spaceport, somberly waiting to carry damned souls to their place of punishment.Her name was the Vulcan and she was the famous prison-ship of the Planet Patrol. Once a year, she went out through the worlds upon a fateful voyage. At each world, criminals sentenced to life imprisonment came aboard her. The end of the voyage was at the grim, gray Interplanetary Prison on Cerberus, moon of Pluto.Men in purple-striped convict dress were shuffling now under the krypton lights’ blue glare toward the looming black hull. They were a motley crew of vicious, hardened criminals — mostly hard-faced Earthmen, but a few green-skinned Venusians and red Martians.They were guarded by vigilant, armed officers in the black uniform of the Planet Patrol.A girl who also wore that black uniform stood under the lights near the ship, shaking her dark head at her tall, redhaired male companion.“I have to go, Curt,” she was protesting.
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