02355cam a22003733u 450000100060000000300070000600500170001300600020003000700050003200800410003704000110007804100170008905000070010610000180011324500150013126400510014630000470019733600260024433700260027033800360029649000430033250000310037550800960040652011990050253400450170165300200174665300180176665300280178465300250181265300240183770000340186183000430189585600430193864265UtSlPG20260610134459.0mcr n260607r2021||||utu|||||o|||||||||||||| d  aUtSlPG 7aen2iso639-1 4aPS1 aBarrett, John10aCrash Beam 1aSalt Lake City, UT :bProject Gutenberg,c2021  a1 online resource :bmultiple file formats  atextbtxt2rdacontent  acomputerbc2rdamedia  aonline resourcebcr2rdacarrier1 aProduced from Planet Stories Fall 1947  aRelease date is 2021-01-11  aGreg Weeks, Mary Meehan and the Online Distributed Proofreading Team at http://www.pgdp.net  a"Crash Beam" by John Barrett is a science fiction novel written in the late 1940s. The story centers around a perilous incident involving landing rockets on a futuristic Earth-Venus space route, where a sudden catastrophe threatens the lives of pilots and passengers alike. The narrative explores themes of technology, sabotage, and the desperate struggle to avert disaster in a high-stakes environment.  The plot unfolds as Dan Kearns, an electronics engineer, faces the aftermath of a disastrous landing mishap that results in the death of two pilots. As he grapples with the implications of control failures, Kearns uncovers evidence suggesting that the incidents are not the result of mere technical issues but possibly the work of sabotage involving dangerous light wavelengths. As the clock ticks down to the arrival of another passenger rocket, Kearns must act fast, ultimately taking control of the situation by reflecting the harmful beam back at its source, exposing the treachery that threatened their mission. The story combines tension-filled moments with a clever twist on the intersection of human ingenuity and technological hazard. (This is an automatically generated summary.)  nOriginal publication data not identified  aScience fiction  aShort stories  aSpace flight -- Fiction  aEngineers -- Fiction  aSabotage -- Fiction1 aVestal, Herman B.,d1916-2007 0aProduced from Planet Stories Fall 194740uhttps://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/64265