Edmond Hamilton 26 min read

Deep in the cavernous, blazing interior of airless Mercury, Doug Norris follows a uranium vein, and feels that sixth sense of imminent peril that twice before ended in disaster.

Edmond Hamilton's 1947 story is a clever hard-SF space opera of remote-controlled exploration. Vivid, ingenious golden-age SF. Read it for a rousing tale of men mining the deadliest worlds by proxy, and the danger that strikes when the remote link is all that stands between life and death.

In its time

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

Reading it

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