Margaret St. Clair 17 min read

Ericson wakes to himself all at once, a memory of pain pressed into his mind like wax, and a green-skinned girl named Mnathl squatting beside him, offering a roasted rib.

Margaret St. Clair's 1949 story sends its amnesiac hero into a lush, strange lost-world tale on an alien planet. Vivid, atmospheric golden-age SF. Read it for an evocative story of a man piecing together his past amid the green-skinned peoples and dangers of a garden world.

In its time

Published in 1949, during the 1940s, the golden age begins.

Reading it

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