Wilbur S. Peacock 16 min read

A grim space-opera voyage where the destination itself is death, from the pages of the wartime pulps.

Wilbur S. Peacock's 1943 story delivers fast, dark interplanetary adventure in the muscular style of the golden-age magazines. Colorful, action-driven pulp SF. Read it for brisk wartime space opera, all peril and headlong momentum, straight from the era of the great pulps.

In its time

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

Reading it

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