Stanley Mullen 54 min read

It was all Charley's fault, of course, Charley being a full-grown, two-yard-long moondog, curled up and glaring in malignant fury from the instrument panel of the space sled.

Stanley Mullen's 1952 story spins a colorful, comic space-opera adventure from a man and his cantankerous alien pet on the Moon. Fun, vivid golden-age SF. Read it for a rousing, wry tale of lunar peril and a very ill-tempered moondog, over the blazing craters of the Appenines.

In its time

Published in 1952, during the 1950s, post-war optimism meets cold war anxiety.

Reading it

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

Illustrated by

Kelly Freas