John Foster West 10 min read

Alone in Luna's rugged north country, young Ron Crag fuses his claim tag to the richest uranium lode he's seen in many a Lunar June, and reaches for his gun as space moths gather.

John Foster West's 1947 story opens on a vivid lunar prospecting scene before its military space-opera conflict ignites. Atmospheric, fast-moving golden-age pulp. Read it for a rousing tale of a lone miner, a rich strike, and the claim-jumpers and worse who come for it.

In its time

Published in 1947, during the 1940s, the golden age begins.

Reading it

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

Illustrated by

Herman B. Vestal