A. A. O. Gilmour 37 min read

In the gryxon mines of Tetrarch IV, a slave who was twenty-five yesterday is glad to die today, and his fellow prisoner burns for vengeance.

A. A. O. Gilmour's 1947 story opens in a brutal alien labor camp where the mineral being mined ages its workers to death, kindling Rod Harrow's pity into a driving hunger for revolt. Grim, vivid pulp space opera about oppression and the will to strike back. Read it for hard-edged golden-age adventure with a genuine sense of injustice at its core.

In its time

Published in 1947, during the 1940s, the golden age begins.

Reading it

37 min read (a novelette, room for a turn or two).