Damon Knight 27 min read

Under the great translucent Dome of a Martian city, a space-burned man shadows a dark figure through the multicolored night, his ship crashed, his mission urgent, his time short.

Damon Knight's 1944 story sends its hunted hero through a vividly rendered Mars toward a lost-world secret behind the fabled doorway to Kal-Jmar. Atmospheric, fast-moving golden-age SF. Read it for colorful planetary intrigue and pursuit beneath the domes of the red planet.

In its time

Published in 1944, during the 1940s, the golden age begins.

Reading it

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

Illustrated by

Murphy Anderson