Wilbur S. Peacock 40 min read

A mining-corporation trouble-shooter loads his scout rocket and blasts off for a world of strange, mingled life.

Wilbur S. Peacock's 1944 story sends the red-haired, craggy Don Denton off on a corporate assignment toward a planet of chimerical dangers. Brisk, colorful golden-age space opera with a capable, likable hero. Read it for straightforward pulp adventure and a solid company-man protagonist facing an alien world.

In its time

Published in 1944, during the 1940s, the golden age begins.

Reading it

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