Evelyn Goldstein 30 min read

Silver-haired, silver-eyed Allyn the Numan, cloaked in black, edges to the rocks above the Graysand Desert, where a pack of giant, foul-breathed carnivores is closing in for the kill.

Evelyn Goldstein's 1954 story opens on vivid danger in a strange far-future land, building a colonization adventure. Colorful, atmospheric golden-age SF. Read it for a rousing tale of a lone hero, deadly beasts, and the mysterious realm that lies beyond the flame.

In its time

Published in 1954, during the 1950s, post-war optimism meets cold war anxiety.

Reading it

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

Illustrated by

Herman B. Vestal