Albert dePina 1 hr 18 min read

Like a monstrous jewel, the plastic sphere-city Plastica hovers over Neptune, burning at its heart with the hate of millions of slaves, ready to flare into revolt at the call of Vyrl Guerlan.

Albert dePina's 1944 story is a lush, colorful space opera of tyranny and rebellion in a transparent city-world. Vivid, atmospheric golden-age pulp. Read it for a rousing tale of a man without a country leading the enslaved multitudes of Plastica against their cold masters.

In its time

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

Reading it

1 hr 18 min read (a novella, a full arc in one sitting or two).

Illustrated by

Lee Elias