Positive Charge • collection by Leigh Richmond and Walt Richmond
Positive Charge is a collection of technological and fantasy tales of man's vast, puzzling, and often perilous future. Here you will find: An Electronic saboteur.A shepherd whose flock threatens galactic domination.A robot faced with unemployment...A substance repelled by both parties of a magnet...A stranded explorer who can't prove his identity to the rescuers from space...and much more!"
Contents:
• M'Lord Is the Shepherd • (1965) • short story
• If the Sabot Fits ... • (1968) • short story (variant of "If the Sabot Fits ... ")
• Cows Can't Eat Grass • (1967) • short story
• Shorts Wing • [Willy Shorts] • short story
• Shortstack • [Willy Shorts] • (1964) • novelette
• Shortsite • [Willy Shorts] • (1964) • short story
• I, BEM • [Willy Shorts] • (1964) • short story
• Prologue to ... an Analogue • (1961) • novelette by Leigh Richmond (variant of Prologue to an Analogue)


Gallagher's Glacier by Leigh Richmond and Walt Richmond
The space lanes as man knew them were in the constricting grasp of Earth's giant corporations, deathless economic mechanisms which exploited the wealth of a hundred planets. The only law on the planets was corporate law, and dreamed-of Utopias had become penal colonies. The comparatively small number of independent pioneers seemed to have no hope of breaking the bonds of these leviathans, for Earth's government and the Solspace Merchant Fleet controlled every ship in space. Then, suddenly, they controlled every ship but one. A single man, Dublin Gallagher, had set himself against the corporate giants with a ship carved from an interstellar glacier. Were one ship, one man, and a handful of allies enough to defeat the powers that had held hegemony so long? Gallagher and his renegades could not know, but they were willing to die trying!
Cover by Kelly Freas