CHAPTER I
"Okay, make another check on the reading."
Grim terror lurked in the void many light years from Earth. But Pinkham and his men were unaware of it—until suddenly they discovered—The Giants From Outer Space
"I've made four checks already—"
"Damn it, make another!"
"It's no use, Pink. The life-scanner's never wrong."
"No possibility of a monkey wrench dropped into its innards? It couldn't be seeing things that aren't there?"
"Not in a million years."
"Then there's no water, no air, no gravity worth mentioning, and still—"
"That's right. There's life on that silly-looking little apple. There's somebody sitting on it!"