Mack Reynolds 47 min read

Someone out there doesn't like trees, someone willing to sabotage the great Sahara Reforestation Project, and to murder to do it.

Mack Reynolds's 1961 story sends its khaki-clad hero into a colonization-and-social-SF thriller amid the greening of the desert. Brisk, ideas-driven golden-age SF. Read it for a tale of ambitious terraforming on Earth itself, and the deadly enemy determined to see it fail.

In its time

Published in 1961, during the 1960s, new wave revolutionizes the genre.

Reading it

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

Illustrated by

Bob Ritter