Basil Wells 27 min read

On a backward planet of stampeding monsters and stinking humanoids, a man who gives off no odor finds sanctuary, until they notice.

Basil Wells's 1947 story sweeps a thundering herd of green-crested saurians across a ruined alien plain toward a hidden metal weapon, in a vivid tale of an outsider whose very scentlessness sets him apart. Colorful, fast-moving planetary pulp with a strong sensory imagination. Read it for atmospheric golden-age adventure on a wonderfully strange and pungent world.

In its time

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

Reading it

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