Guns And Rockets

"The Snows of Ganymede," VI.

A group of Planetary Engineers:

look out of their apartment into the corridor;

shoot the guards;

run along the corridor;

shoot at their pursuers;

enter a garage;

lock its door behind them;

threaten protesting mechanics;

enter a rocket;

move the wheeled rocket outside;

see swarming spacesuited figures;

lift off;

are pursued by a police rocket which shoots them down;

either die in the crash or must trek across Ganymede.

This is the kind of sf that I read in childhood: Dan Dare, Jet Ace Logan, Captain Condor etc - heroes on a planet where every hand is turned against them. Sometimes we forget it. Michael Moorcock based one Jerry Cornelius novel on this premise. It took me back.