Frederik Pohl 1 hr 4 min read

Three years dead, pyro-burned off Luna in a failed prison break, the outlaw Steve Nolan has a job to do, so Nolan comes back, to icy Pluto and the man he swore to kill.

Frederik Pohl's 1944 story is a fast, brooding space opera of vengeance and galactic intrigue on the frozen frontier. Colorful, driven golden-age SF. Read it for a tale of a dead man walking the Plutonian wastes to settle an old score and finish a mission.

In its time

Published in 1944, during the 1940s, the golden age begins.

Reading it

1 hr 4 min read (a novelette, room for a turn or two).

Illustrated by

Joseph Doolin