Catch the Star Winds

Lancer 74-553
(Cover Kelly Freas)

The term was an euphemism, because spacemen and space passengers - like seamen in earlier days - were inclined to be superstitious. And people still didn't like the idea of sailing shipmates with a corpse. But this specimen was something more than a cadaver...

(Included in the Novel Catch The Star Winds)

New Worlds 23 May 1954
Science Fiction Stories May 1957
CATCH THE STAR WINDS Lancer, (US), 1969
LEGENDS OF THE RIM, Act Mockba (Russia), 2003