Henry Hasse 47 min read

Commander Janus stares baffled at the power-board of the Patrol ship Wasp, the Deflector needle gyrating wildly, some unseen object dead ahead that the ship simply will not steer around.

Henry Hasse's 1941 story is a colorful space-opera adventure of a patrol ship and a mysterious menace near Neptune. Vivid, kinetic golden-age pulp. Read it for a rousing tale where an inexplicable disturbance in deep space draws a Patrol crew toward the strange proktols of the outer dark.

In its time

Published in 1941, during the 1940s, the golden age begins.

Reading it

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

Illustrated by

Hannes Bok