Fremont Dodge 28 min read

Framed for grand theft and judicially certified a criminal, biological engineer Asa Graybar faces a sentence that will send him to labor in the deadly muck of a franchise planet.

Fremont Dodge's 1963 story is a sharp colonization-and-dystopia tale of corporate power, injustice, and a hostile world. Vivid, gritty golden-age SF. Read it for a story of a framed man sentenced to the muck, and the ruthless planetary monopoly that put him there.

In its time

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

Reading it

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

Illustrated by

Jack Gaughan