Henry Hasse 56 min read

Hauling himself off the floor and rubbing his aching jaw, stowaway Mark Travers grins ruefully at the big spaceman who slugged him, aboard a small, dark, insignia-less ship bound for who knows where.

Henry Hasse's 1945 story is a fast, colorful space-opera adventure of a stowaway on a secret voyage. Vivid, kinetic golden-age pulp. Read it for a rousing tale where a resourceful stranger talks his way aboard a mystery ship headed for the unknown Planet X.

In its time

Published in 1945, during the 1940s, the golden age begins.

Reading it

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

Illustrated by

Robert S. Pious