Joseph Farrell 48 min read

Reporter Ron Barnard stuck his nose into one story too many, a lovely girl, a wily smuggler, a system-wide drug ring, and now it's ending for him aboard a rogue spaceship bound for Pluto.

Joseph Farrell's 1944 story is a fast, hard-boiled psi-and-space-opera tale of a newsman in over his head. Colorful, breathless golden-age pulp. Read it for a rousing pulp adventure of dope rings, mind-thieves, and peril on the outer edge of the solar system.

In its time

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

Reading it

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

Illustrated by

Joseph Doolin