City ........................... State ................................. THE PLANET STRAPPERS started out as The Bunch, a group of student-astronauts in the back room of a store in Jarviston, Minnesota. They wanted off Earth, and they begged, borrowed and built what they needed to make it. THE PLANET STRAPPERS got what they wanted--a start on the road to the stars--but no one brought up on Earth could have imagined what was waiting for them Out There! In THE PLANET STRAPPERS, Ray Gallun has written a story of the Day After Tomorrow--a story of what it will be like for the men who cross the space frontier--a story that some of us will be *living* some day.... A PYRAMID BOOK 35c COVER: JOHN SCHOENHERR Printed in U.S.A. Transcriber's Note: The following typographical errors in the original text have been corrected in this eBook: Page 18: "signficant" changed to "significant" Page 43: single quotation mark changed to a double quotation mark Page 69: "re-leatch" changed to "re-latch" Page 70: "in" changed to "an" Page 72: "Casseopia" changed to "Cassiopeia" Page 73: "sitch" changed to "switch" Page 75: "dopy" changed to "dopey" Page 77: "thundrous" changed to "thunderous" Page 78: missing quotation mark added; "dissappeared" changed to "disappeared"; "a" changed to "at"; "Were" changed to "We're" Page 81: "Kuzack" changed to "Kuzak" Page 85: "stear" changed to "steer" Page 89: "Kuzaks" changed to "Kuzaks'" Page 92: "asteriods" changed to "asteroids" Page 104: missing quotation mark added; "summersaults" changed to "somersaults" Page 107: "heathy" changed to "healthy" Page 113: "asteriod-hoppers" changed to "asteroid-hoppers" Page 115: "prismastic" changed to "prismatic" Page 121: "guage" changed to "gauge" Page 124: "exhude" changed to "exude" Page 132: extra quotation mark removed Page 137: "assteroid-hoppers" changed to "asteroid-hoppers"; "advertized" changed to "advertised" Page 143: "milleniums" changed to "millenniums" Page 145: "quandrant" changed to "quadrant" Page 158: "fantasty" changed to "fantasy" End of Project Gutenberg's The Planet Strappers, by Raymond Zinke Gallun