Nathan Schachner 44 min read

Grant Pemberton wakes in the deathly stillness of a space-flier, gun in hand, as a spatulate-fingered Ganymedan hand slides a pencil-ray through the slowly opening door of his cabin.

Nathan Schachner's 1932 story is a fast, colorful space-opera adventure of interplanetary piracy. Vivid, kinetic golden-age pulp. Read it for a rousing tale of raiders and derring-do among the moons, opening on a tense midnight intrusion aboard a ship in deep space.

In its time

Published in 1932, during the 1930s, space opera soars.

Reading it

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