Bill Garson 38 min read

The pitiful remnant of a proud world, herded into slave quarters on Karrar and dying under the Kraks' cold brutality, seeks the one weak point in their masters, with a single man still fighting on.

Bill Garson's 1945 story is a driving military space opera of conquest, slavery, and desperate resistance. Vivid, atmospheric golden-age pulp. Read it for a rousing tale of an enslaved people and the lone rebel searching for the Achilles' heel of their oppressors.

In its time

Published in 1945, during the 1940s, the golden age begins.

Reading it

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

Illustrated by

C. A. Murphy