Carl Jacobi 1 hr 2 min read

A man wakes with a pounding head on an iron cot aboard a Sirian prison ship, as the vibration ceases, alarms clang, and something goes very wrong.

Carl Jacobi's 1943 story surfaces Standish into captivity and crisis, memory rushing back as the prison ship falls silent. Tense, atmospheric military space opera. Read it for a gripping golden-age tale that opens in an alien brig at the moment everything starts to break down.

In its time

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

Reading it

1 hr 2 min read (a novelette, room for a turn or two).

Illustrated by

Frank R. Paul