Ray Bradbury 20 min read

Aboard a Morgue Ship gathering the frozen war dead, the needling Logan taunts old Brandon to climb up and look at the newest body, daring him to see whether it's his own son.

Ray Bradbury's 1944 story is a grim, atmospheric military space opera of death, grief, and dread. Vivid, unsettling early Bradbury. Read it for a haunting tale set among the frozen bodies of a war in space, where a father dreads what the latest corpse may reveal.

In its time

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

Reading it

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

Illustrated by

Ellis Wellington Potter