A complete issue · 91 pages · 1977
Prisión en Ganimedes
A complete, restored issue of Pulp Fiction from 1977 — all 91 pages of painted-cover fiction magazines that launched science fiction, horror, and hardboiled crime, free to page through at ComicBooks.com.
A complete issue · 91 pages · 1977
This science-fiction novel by A. Thorkent concerns a penal mining colony. Prison director Horker receives television journalist Brenda Lake at Creta II, a Martian facility where convicts—mostly volunteers serving reduced sentences in exchange for dangerous radioactive mining work—labor under armed guards. Horker defends the operation's safety record and living conditions while Brenda probes whether equipment standards match private mining operations and questions profit-sharing arrangements between Earth and Martian governments. She reveals knowledge of a secret shipment: 200 convicts, mostly murderers with sentences exceeding twenty years, departing tomorrow for a new mining operation on Ganymede. Among the miners is Damian Duque, whose cooling suit malfunctions while he extracts blue-flecked ore. Fellow prisoner Tom, temporarily assigned material duties, warns of rumored transfers to Jupiter's moons as experimental labor. The narrative contrasts official reassurances with dangerous working conditions and the convicts' grim prospects.
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