Tom Pace 19 min read

For eight years Devil Garrett has been the top pirate in the void; for one year Star Blade has hunted him, and now, ship destroyed, Star waits by a Centaurian lake for the kill.

Tom Pace's 1945 story pitches its hero into a lethal manhunt on the most barren planet in space. Fast, muscular golden-age space opera. Read it for a lean pursuit tale of hunter and hunted, stranded together on a dead world.

In its time

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

Reading it

19 min read (a short story, a single idea, delivered and gone).

Illustrated by

H. W. Kiemle