D. L. James 23 min read

Slavery, in the twenty-ninth century! Shanghaied from the Earth-Mars transport lines and set to labor on magnetic Asteroid 60, Neal Bormon curses and swears he'll break free.

D. L. James's 1940 story opens on outrage and captivity, launching a fast space-opera escape tale on a strange, iron-rich planetoid. Vivid, driven golden-age pulp. Read it for a rousing prison-break adventure among the asteroids, powered by one furious man's refusal to stay enslaved.

In its time

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

Reading it

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

Illustrated by

Ed Smalle