Cowboys! Flying saucers! Gangsters! A weird space creature!
Rustlers! Outlaws! Dames in trouble! The mob! Space Amazons! Space gladiators!
And one man is the key to it all…
How can this be?
Trouble Magnet – A rare condition wherein the afflicted individual attracts frequent trouble of a serious nature. This has manifested most recently in the form of a starship captain whose five-year mission was plagued on a weekly basis with every imaginable complication. Earlier cases include ranches that were rustled, attacked by outlaws, and worse, also weekly, as well as a number of private detectives hired, once again every week, for murders, kidnappings, and other felonies rather than the usual missing persons and divorce cases.
Most often a Trouble Magnet merely draws in drama and danger. But in the most extreme case ever recorded…
- Unusual Conditions in Space and Time, Mark Ayrata, ed., Proxima University Press, 2263, p. 1186
