Henry Hasse 28 min read

On prison-planet Number Seven, the supply ship finds the convicts still mining, the overseer dead, and a suicide's hastily scribbled confession, the record of a stark drama among men who hated.

Henry Hasse's 1942 story is a grim, atmospheric space-opera tale of prison-world revolt and hatred. Vivid, driven golden-age pulp. Read it for a story told through a dead man's confession, unfolding the dark drama that played out on a penal planet.

In its time

Published in 1942, during the 1940s, the golden age begins.

Reading it

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

Illustrated by

Leo Morey