
An Elephant for the Prinkip by Joseph Wesley
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A veteran freighter captain accepts a job that sounds impossible, then discovers the real challenge isn’t transporting the cargo—it’s keeping control of it. Every solution creates a new problem, and one misunderstanding threatens to turn a profitable voyage into a very expensive disaster. An Elephant for the Prinkip by Joseph Wesley. That’s next on The Lost Sci-Fi Podcast.
There isn’t much information about Joseph Wesley. One source says he was born in 1918 but doesn’t say where.
He frequently used the pseudonyms L. J. Stecher and L. J. Stecher Jr.
Wesley wrote 13 short sci-fi stories from 1956 to 1969.
Open the August 1960 issue of Galaxy Magazine to page 122, An Elephant for the Prinkip by Joseph Wesley…
Next on The Lost Sci-Fi Podcast, A routine cargo run turns into a relentless battle against a chain of biological surprises that no one bothered to translate correctly. As one problem breeds the next, a stubborn starship captain must decide how much misery he can endure before the cargo destroys him—or ruins an entire world. Cakewalk to Gloryanna by Joseph Wesley.
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