Basil Wells 26 min read

Ho Dyak climbs the pale, blue-veined vines above a three-hundred-foot sea of fog, clutching a pouch of five forbidden metal scrolls stolen from a musty forgotten chamber.

Basil Wells's 1946 story unfolds a vivid post-apocalyptic and colonization tale on a strange fog-drowned world of lost knowledge. Atmospheric, imaginative golden-age SF. Read it for evocative planetary adventure among the mists, where forbidden scrolls hold the memory of a forgotten past.

In its time

Published in 1946, during the 1940s, the golden age begins.

Reading it

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

Illustrated by

Alexander Leydenfrost