Ray Bradbury 23 min read

A million cold miles past the Moon, a crewman's mind tears loose and screams at the sheer horror of the void, and he begs the captain for anything to hold him together.

Ray Bradbury's 1946 story plunges into raw psychological terror in deep space, a lyrical, unsettling tale of the human mind against the abyss. Vivid, poetic early Bradbury. Read it for a haunting story about the defenses we build to survive the unbearable enormity of space.

In its time

Published in 1946, during the 1940s, the golden age begins.

Reading it

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

Illustrated by

Joseph Doolin