Magnus Ludens 10 min read

Everyone knows the Moon is dead, everyone is quite correct, now. On impact, the crash sends Marcusson tumbling back through memory to the day his father told him a family secret.

Magnus Ludens's 1963 story spins a haunting first-contact and space-opera tale from a lunar crash and a long-hidden truth. Atmospheric, poignant golden-age SF. Read it for a story where a disaster on the dead Moon unlocks a secret about who, and what, its hero really is.

In its time

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

Reading it

10 min read (a short story, a single idea, delivered and gone).