Ed Earl Repp 39 min read

Alone in the Venusian night, Sub-Commander Lolan writes out his resignation from the Martian Army of Occupation, a letter that may mean court-martial, but something in him has festered too long.

Ed Earl Repp's 1940 story builds a military space opera of conscience and rebellion within an occupying Martian force. Sharp, atmospheric golden-age pulp. Read it for a story of a soldier who can no longer serve, and the terror his defiance may unleash.

In its time

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

Reading it

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

Illustrated by

Leo Morey