Dwight V. Swain 1 hr 53 min read

A man flung back to the Crete of King Minos shelters with Ariadne in the labyrinth-palace while a jealous king thirsts for his blood.

Dwight V. Swain's 1957 story drops the modern Burke into the storm-lashed Bronze Age of the Minotaur's isle, romance and death braided together in the frescoed halls beyond the Queen's Megaron. Vivid, fast-moving time-travel adventure steeped in myth. Read it for colorful golden-age SF that turns the legend of Crete into a breathless historical thriller.

In its time

Published in 1957, during the 1950s, post-war optimism meets cold war anxiety.

Reading it

1 hr 53 min read (a novella, a full arc in one sitting or two).