Bryce Walton 45 min read

Seven feet of Terran-Martian muscle, Moljar stands panting beside a dying saurian in the blood-soaked Colosseum, champion of the Red Moon Games, ordered by the cruel Princess Alhone.

Bryce Walton's 1947 story is a lurid, colorful space-opera adventure of arena combat and rebellion on Venus. Vivid, muscular golden-age pulp. Read it for a rousing tale of a gladiator-champion pitted against monsters and men in the games of a sadistic princess.

In its time

Published in 1947, during the 1940s, the golden age begins.

Reading it

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

Illustrated by

H. W. Keiple