Gardner F. Fox 54 min read

From distant worlds the master beings came to Neeoorna, bringing the science of the universe, and one by one they faced the alien black flames and died. Now only the primitive Earthling remains.

Gardner F. Fox's 1945 story is a colorful first-contact space opera of cosmic trials and an underdog hero. Vivid, imaginative golden-age pulp. Read it for a rousing tale where a lowly Earthman, armed with strange new powers, must face what killed the galaxy's greatest minds.

In its time

Published in 1945, during the 1940s, the golden age begins.

Reading it

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

Illustrated by

Joseph Doolin