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ROCKET TO LIMBO
by ALAN E. NOURSE


WOLF IV-THE PLANET FROM WHICH NO SHIP EVER RETURNED!
Lars Heldrigsson was fresh out of the Colonial Service Academy and his first
assignment was a milk-run to Vega aboard the Ganymede. Not a very exciting trip, except
that the ship's commander, Walter Fox, had explored and opened up more new
colony-worlds than any other man alive!
But the Ganymede had hardly blasted off before Lars dicovered that not all the crew
shared his admiration of their chief. Rumors circulated to the effect that Fox still believed
there were other intelligent beings in the galaxy; that they weren't going to Vega at all, but to
Wolf IV, the one planet from which no man had ever returned alive . . .
Then the ship made landfall and Lars' first look out the viewport told him the rumors had
been rightl But it was the commander's announcement that clinched it. "We've landed on
Wolf IV," Fox said grimly, "and we're going to hunt aliens! You men work with me - or you'll
never see Earth againl"
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Quotes from the reviews:
"This is no ordinary star-jump: author Nourse had conceived a ^really'Credible plot with
three dimensional characters motivated by plausible reasoning. Furthermore, he has an
almost uncanny ability to visualize the strange sensations and settings of the world of the
future."
- Virginia Kirkus
"There is something haunting about rocket to limbo . .. The author suggests that if man
has faith, he can literally rearrange his environment to suit himself."
- English Journal
"The pace is good, suspense well sustained, and the conclusion satisfyingly surprising."
- Best Setters
"Better than most."
- San Francisco Chronicle
ROCKET TO LIMBO
by ALAN E. NOURSE
ACE BOOKS, INC. 23 West 47th Street, New York 36, N. Y.
ROCKET TO LIMBO
Copyright ©, 1957, by Alan E. Nourse
An Ace Book, by arrangement with David McKay Co., Inc. All Rights- Reserved
To J. McP. H. who will write his own some day


PROLOGUE
ad astba, the words on the bronze plaque read.
The heavy metal sheet was bright and new, gleaming red-brown in the afternoon
sunlight. Great bolts of brass buckled it to the base of the launching rack, a slab of gray
granite cut in a single piece from the living rock of the mountains high above the rocket port.
Reaching up from the rack, the Star Ship stood like a silvery needle, poised, graceful, eager
to break away from the bonds of Earth-pointing upward toward the stars it sought.
To the stars.
The ship was named Argonaut in memory of that legendary ship and its crew that had
plunged into unknown waters so many centuries before. She had been built with tireless