J. Harvey Haggard 38 min read

In a platinum-and-teakwood library, a monstrous man jabs red pins savagely into a chart of the spaceways, while a frail girl in a wheelchair asks softly, 'Feel better, dad?'

J. Harvey Haggard's 1941 story opens on a vivid scene of ambition and infirmity, launching a space-opera tale of commerce and cure. Colorful, atmospheric golden-age pulp. Read it for a story that pairs a ruthless space magnate with his invalid daughter and a strange promise of healing among the stars.

In its time

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

Reading it

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

Illustrated by

John R. Forte