Lieutenant Commander Bruce Hunter, the commanding officer of the Chicago Space Salvage Yard for spaceships in “the jaded, space-minded world of the twenty-first century”, has been grounded from space travel because of “space radiation sickness”. He tells his paramour, prominent biologist Joyce Lawrence, that she should travel while he cannot. A wreck comes in from some uncharted region of space near the Red Star Aldebaran. The pilot’s body is petrified, a “figure of pulverized stone”, and the wreck has a recording disc on a player that plays enticing music, which becomes popular to the public. When it’s played back, the music is amazing and hypnotic. It becomes enormously popular. A mission is planned to seek its source near Aldebaran, headed by Joyce. She goes with Captain Jackson. When the Captain plays his violin, he is accosted by a group of mobile, sound-sensitive trees.These are the Music Makers of Alderbaran, the source of the music. Joyce sends a message to the Earth. Bruce takes a crew to rescue her, using sound to drive the creatures away. As they leave, Bruce is happy that Joyce retrieved full recordings of their music.
Description Lieutenant Commander Bruce Hunter, the commanding officer of the Chicago Space Salvage Yard for spaceships in “the jaded, space-minded world of the twenty-first century”, has been grounded from space travel because of “space radiation sickness”. He tells his paramour, prominent biologist Joyce Lawrence, that she should travel while he cannot. A wreck comes in from some uncharted region of space near the Red Star Aldebaran. The pilot’s body is petrified, a “figure of pulverized stone”, and the wreck has a recording disc on a player that plays enticing music, which becomes popular to the public. When it’s played back, the music is amazing and hypnotic. It becomes enormously popular. A mission is planned to seek its source near Aldebaran, headed by Joyce. She goes with Captain Jackson. When the Captain plays his violin, he is accosted by a group of mobile, sound-sensitive trees.These are the Music Makers of Alderbaran, the source of the music. Joyce sends a message to the Earth. Bruce takes a crew to rescue her, using sound to drive the creatures away. As they leave, Bruce is happy that Joyce retrieved full recordings of their music.
