“Every fifteen years, Saturn eclipses the sun, and Titan spends seventy-two hours in darkness. Nine months into the Vicks’ stay, four Titanian days before the eclipse is due, an ice mountain near the Vicks’ shack collapses.”
The gale roared incessantly like all the tormented souls since creation’s dawn, driving the two sliding and tumbling into the momentary shelter of a ridge of ice. A cloud of glittering ice needles swept by, rainbow-hued in the brilliant night, and the chill of eighty below zero bit through the sponge rubber of their suits.
“Flight on Titan” is a science fiction short story by American writer Stanley G. Weinbaum. It was the third story published by Weinbaum in his Planetary Series. Flight on Titan first appeared in the January 1935 issue of Astounding Stories, was the first of Weinbaum’s to appear in Astounding Stories, and is the only story by him set on Saturn’s largest moon, Titan.
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