The Space Mariners

By: Tom Slemen

Narrated by: Robert Lee Wilson

Set in the not-too-distant future, The Space Mariners is a rip-roaring short story of high adventure which takes place against settings as diverse as the Liverpool Spacedocks, interplanetary space, and a mysterious alien portal which gives access to unexplored worlds light years from Earth. The Space Mariners tells the story of two 16-year-old school-leavers dismissed as unemployable no-hopers who hang around a spaceport in an effort to obtain a job, only to find themselves embroiled in an adventure involving a disgraced captain of a gargantuan space-freighter that vanished under very mysterious circumstances, a planet-hopping vagrant stowaway, and an Irish double-crossing space pirate named Blood who has claimed an unknown paradisiacal world for his own...

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