Stephen Marlowe 1 hr 49 min read

Fresh from school with a degree in extraterrestrial zoology, Steve faces the fierce, trophy-surrounded big-game hunter Brody Carmical, worth a million credits for each of his richly mounted heads.

Stephen Marlowe's 1952 story sends a young zoologist into a colorful colonization space opera of alien big-game hunting. Vivid, adventurous golden-age SF. Read it for a rousing tale that pits a green graduate against a legendary hunter and the deadly beasts of the spaceways.

In its time

Published in 1952, during the 1950s, post-war optimism meets cold war anxiety.

Reading it

1 hr 49 min read (a novella, a full arc in one sitting or two).