Miguel Hidalgo 11 min read

A lone rider with strange, flame-alive eyes set in a dust-caked, weary body plods across the shifting sand, always seeking, always searching the horizon, never finding what he seeks.

Miguel Hidalgo's 1958 story opens on a haunting image of restless quest, building an atmospheric social-SF and space-opera tale. Evocative, moody golden-age SF. Read it for a story steeped in longing, following a searcher who cannot rest until he finds what he's lost.

In its time

Published in 1958, during the 1950s, post-war optimism meets cold war anxiety.

Reading it

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

Illustrated by

Ed Emshwiller