Stanton A. Coblentz 21 min read

Downey wakes drugged and aching in near-darkness, a hammering sound in the distance and a slim form sprawled beside him, a captive in a strange, fallen future America.

Stanton A. Coblentz's 1941 story sends its hero into a savage post-apocalyptic world of headhunters and lost civilization. Vivid, adventurous golden-age SF. Read it for a rousing tale of survival and escape amid the ruins of a far-future continent gone barbarous.

In its time

Published in 1941, during the 1940s, the golden age begins.

Reading it

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

Illustrated by

David A. Kyle