Gas Miners Discovered Something Living Beneath The Saturn Storms

Saturn has no ground for twenty thousand miles. So when a helium skimmer pilot's altimeter dies mid-storm and his ship settles onto something the wind can't move, he doesn't call dispatch. Pilots who report things under the clouds get papered for pressure psychosis and never fly again.

He calls the barge's old winch operator instead, a nearly deaf man who hears the storm through a copper rod in his teeth and swears a mean old cow lies under the weather, eating a pilot now and then. Don't light her, the old man warns. The pilot fires...