Spacehounds of IPC

A narrow football of steel, the Interplanetary Vessel Arcturus stood upright in her berth in the dock like an egg in its cup. A hundred feet across and a hundred and seventy feet deep was that gigantic bowl, its walls supported by the structural steel and concrete of the dock and lined with hard–packed bumper–layers of hemp and fibre. High into the air extended the upper half of the ship of space—a sullen gray expanse of fifty–inch hardened steel armor, curving smoothly upward to a n