Joseph Farrell 35 min read

Rockets flaring, Paul Hawthorne wrestles a crippled ship down toward a murderous landscape, as his exasperated crewmate growls, 'You got us to this desert planet, now get us landed alive!'

Joseph Farrell's 1944 story opens on a fraught crash-landing, building a fast military space opera of stranded men. Colorful, kinetic golden-age pulp. Read it for a rousing tale of spacemen marooned on a hostile Centaurian world, fighting to survive with no world of their own.

In its time

Published in 1944, during the 1940s, the golden age begins.

Reading it

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

Illustrated by

H. W. Kiemle