Lowell Howard Morrow 48 min read

A silver airship glides over a dead and drying world, all solemn silence below, and settles into a great bowl-shaped hollow, carrying, perhaps, the last man alive.

Lowell Howard Morrow's 1933 story is an atmospheric post-apocalyptic tale of a dying Earth and its final survivors. Vivid, elegiac golden-age pulp. Read it for a haunting story set in the last days of a parched and lifeless world, and the man who may be its Omega.

In its time

Published in 1933, during the 1930s, space opera soars.

Reading it

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

Illustrated by

Leo Morey