Murray Leinster 1 hr 5 min read

Under charges he knows are false, Lieutenant Stan Buckley sits in a confinement cell aboard the Stallifer, a deep, savage, corrosive anger growing in him against the officer who framed him.

Murray Leinster's 1948 story is a fast space-opera adventure of injustice, escape, and a hostile desert world. Sharp, driven golden-age SF. Read it for a rousing tale where a wronged spaceman's fury propels him from a prison cell into peril on a planet of sand.

In its time

Published in 1948, during the 1940s, the golden age begins.

Reading it

1 hr 5 min read (a novelette, room for a turn or two).

Illustrated by

Lawrence Sterne Stevens