Leigh Brackett 56 min read

A Gypsy world built of space flotsam, haven of the System's few free races, becomes a slave-trap for an outcast seeking sanctuary.

Leigh Brackett's 1943 Planet Stories tale sends the hunted Roy Campbell into a drifting refuge for the persecuted Kraylens of Venus, only to find it turned to a prison. Muscular, romantic golden-age space opera with Brackett's rich atmosphere. Read it for vivid pulp SF about freedom, betrayal, and the last home of the hunted.

In its time

Published in 1943, during the 1940s, the golden age begins.

Reading it

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