Chester Whitehorn 33 min read

A Martian named Ro moves cautiously home through jungles of swamp-snakes, cannibal plants, and quicksand, light of heart at the prospect of seeing his village.

Chester Whitehorn's 1945 story opens with vivid, deadly Martian wilderness as its native hero returns from the north toward a fateful homecoming. Colorful, atmospheric planetary military SF told from the alien side. Read it for immersive golden-age adventure in a lush and lethal Mars.

In its time

Published in 1945, during the 1940s, the golden age begins.

Reading it

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