Project Gutenberg 2021-05-03 Public domain in the USA. 120 Silverberg, Robert 1935 Knox, Calvin M. Martin, Webber Mitchell, Clyde Jarvis, E. K. Burke, Ralph A Madman on Board Produced from Imagination Stories of Science and Fantasy February 1958 Greg Weeks, Mary Meehan and the Online Distributed Proofreading Team at http://www.pgdp.net "A Madman on Board" by Robert Silverberg is a science fiction novel written in the late 1950s. The book explores themes of desperation, redemption, and the consequences of choices made in moments of weakness, set against a backdrop of a space station orbiting Earth. The story follows the protagonist, Dave Conroy, who finds himself imprisoned in a hazardous environment as a consequence of his past actions. The narrative unfolds as Dave Conroy, a former scientist turned alcoholic, escapes from a grim fate within the radiation chamber of Earth's Wheel, a space station where inmates are sent to work as a form of punishment. After fleeing from his fellow convicts, he discovers his ex-fiancée, Janet Merrill, is on board while her father, Commissioner Merrill, plots to use a powerful bomb against Earth. Conroy must confront both the threats of the saboteur and his own demons as he navigates a series of desperate scenarios that ultimately lead to a confrontation with Commissioner Merrill, uncovering a more dangerous plot than he initially realized. Through these harrowing events, Conroy seeks not only to save the lives at stake but also to reclaim his own lost future. (This is an automatically generated summary.) Reading ease score: 85.2 (6th grade). Easy to read. en Science fiction Short stories Adventure stories Space stations -- Fiction PS Text Category: Science-Fiction & Fantasy Category: Novels 53781 2025-06-26T04:26:52.786567 text/html 30478 2024-10-18T13:28:22 text/html 384243 2025-06-26T04:26:54.680109 application/epub+zip 383084 2025-06-26T04:26:53.311584 application/epub+zip 85306 2025-06-26T04:26:53.036070 application/epub+zip 420503 2025-06-26T04:26:55.857044 application/x-mobipocket-ebook 412675 2025-06-26T04:26:54.468058 application/x-mobipocket-ebook 115089 2022-09-29T11:06:49.153722 application/x-mobipocket-ebook 47090 2025-06-26T04:26:52.611545 text/plain; charset=us-ascii 27309 2024-10-18T13:28:22 text/plain; charset=us-ascii 17582 2025-06-26T04:26:55.987044 application/rdf+xml 25328 2025-06-26T04:26:53.164588 image/jpeg 4439 2025-06-26T04:26:53.100045 image/jpeg 817064 2025-06-26T04:26:52.802541 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 en.wikipedia More titles under Jorgensen, Ivar