Henry Hasse 1 hr 10 min read

A man flies the perilous Martian polar route toward the mythical city of M'Tonak, driven by a nameless dread he dares not share.

Henry Hasse's 1942 story sends Jim Landor across the storm-wracked Red Desert toward a legend, his real reason kept secret even from himself. Atmospheric, mysterious lost-world space opera. Read it for moody golden-age SF about a forbidden city and the compulsion that draws one man to it.

In its time

Published in 1942, during the 1940s, the golden age begins.

Reading it

1 hr 10 min read (a novelette, room for a turn or two).

Illustrated by

Leo Morey