Wilbur S. Peacock 1 hr 19 min read

The Administrators rule the Solar System like a deadly Hydra, until the Falcon and his outlaw Brood rise against them with a strange new weapon, their fate resting in a girl's Judas hands.

Wilbur S. Peacock's 1943 story is a colorful dystopian space opera of rebellion against tyranny. Vivid, driven golden-age pulp. Read it for a rousing tale of outlaws battling a merciless regime, betrayed and bound up with a woman whose kiss may doom them all.

In its time

Published in 1943, during the 1940s, the golden age begins.

Reading it

1 hr 19 min read (a novella, a full arc in one sitting or two).

Illustrated by

Robert J. Leydenfrost