Murray Leinster 58 min read

Calhoun's work is healing the sick, but this planet is already dead, its calls unanswered, its cities silent, as his Med Ship approaches Maya.

Murray Leinster's 1963 story is a taut Med Service tale of a doctor arriving to find a world mysteriously emptied of life. Sharp, gripping golden-age SF. Read it for a tense medical mystery in space, where the healer must discover what killed a whole planet before it kills him too.

In its time

Published in 1963, during the 1960s, new wave revolutionizes the genre.

Reading it

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