Ed Earl Repp 46 min read

In a Reading gaol, a young nobleman visits Friar Bacon, the roguish priest still practicing his forbidden black magic behind the iron door.

Ed Earl Repp's 1940 story opens in a damp medieval prison where the legendary Roger Bacon works his devilish arts, launching a tale that bridges old sorcery and star-spanning adventure. Colorful, imaginative pulp with a historical-fantastic frame. Read it for rousing golden-age SF that starts in a wizard's cell and reaches for the stars.

In its time

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

Reading it

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

Illustrated by

Don Lynch