Project Gutenberg 2021-01-11 Public domain in the USA. 88 Barrett, John Barret, John Vestal, Herman B. 1916 2007 Vestal, H. B. (Herman B.) Vestal, Herman Beeson Beeson Crash Beam Produced from Planet Stories Fall 1947 Greg Weeks, Mary Meehan and the Online Distributed Proofreading Team at http://www.pgdp.net "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.) Reading ease score: 87.1 (6th grade). Easy to read. en Science fiction Short stories Space flight -- Fiction Engineers -- Fiction Sabotage -- Fiction PS Text Category: Science-Fiction & Fantasy Category: Novels 36143 2025-06-25T10:20:47.454519 text/html 12139 2024-10-18T09:41:59 text/html 511962 2025-06-25T10:20:49.068500 application/epub+zip 510776 2025-06-25T10:20:47.855528 application/epub+zip 78447 2025-06-25T10:20:47.619510 application/epub+zip 542696 2025-06-25T10:20:50.176505 application/x-mobipocket-ebook 535711 2025-06-25T10:20:48.876540 application/x-mobipocket-ebook 103365 2022-09-28T22:46:27.561921 application/x-mobipocket-ebook 29872 2025-06-25T10:20:47.368509 text/plain; charset=us-ascii 10086 2024-10-18T09:41:59 text/plain; charset=us-ascii 17539 2025-06-25T10:20:50.321485 application/rdf+xml 27785 2025-06-25T10:20:47.715476 image/jpeg 4913 2025-06-25T10:20:47.666548 image/jpeg 429025 2025-06-25T10:20:47.466540 application/octet-stream application/zip Archives containing the RDF files for *all* our books can be downloaded at https://book.klll.cc/wiki/Gutenberg:Feeds#The_Complete_Project_Gutenberg_Catalog