Henry Hasse 9 min read

N'Zik balances his frail, eight-limbed body at the forward port and despairs: after searching the whole galaxy, the one sun with planets is dying, and only he and Shi-Zik remain of thousands.

Henry Hasse's 1947 story tells a poignant post-apocalyptic space opera from an alien vantage, the last survivors of a dead world seeking a new home. Melancholy, atmospheric golden-age SF. Read it for a moving tale of cosmic exile and the last, faint hope of a vanished people.

In its time

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

Reading it

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