Frank Belknap Long 3 hr 52 min read

Men killed for a coveted ticket to Mars, Earth's first colony in space, and once there, the killing went on. Ralph Graham arrives with authority that puts the whole planet in his pocket.

Frank Belknap Long's 1962 novel is a fast colonization adventure of intrigue and violence on the Martian frontier. Colorful, driven golden-age SF. Read it for a rousing tale of a man reaching his lifelong goal, and finding the red planet even deadlier than he feared.

In its time

Published in 1962, during the 1960s, new wave revolutionizes the genre.

Reading it

3 hr 52 min read (a novel-length work, settle in).