Will Mohler 24 min read

Shadows haunt the dying alleys and madness stalks the streets, and Dewforth rides the train each morning past a country in the terminal stages of self-destruction.

Will Mohler's 1963 story builds a grim, atmospheric hard-SF and space-opera tale in a ruined, war-poisoned world. Vivid, bleak, evocative golden-age SF. Read it for a story steeped in decay and dread, drawing its hero toward whatever waits at the center of a doomed city.

In its time

Published in 1963, during the 1960s, new wave revolutionizes the genre.

Reading it

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

Illustrated by

John Giunta