Murray Leinster 1 hr 16 min read

Marooned on a world of endless horrors, Moran slashes a yard-long monstrosity apart with a burst of flame, and turns to see still more things crawling toward him.

Murray Leinster's 1962 story is a taut colonization space opera of survival against a nightmare biosphere. Vivid, gripping golden-age SF. Read it for a rousing tale where a man left to die on a planet of ceaseless terrors must fight, and think, his way toward escape.

In its time

Published in 1962, during the 1960s, new wave revolutionizes the genre.

Reading it

1 hr 16 min read (a novella, a full arc in one sitting or two).

Illustrated by

Dan Adkins