Basil Wells 20 min read

On a swampy alien world, Rurak Dun peers down from his rocket at blue jungles and mud, searching in vain for the lost ship Indra, in a land where insect-men and bat-monstrosities dwell.

Basil Wells's 1941 story is a colorful first-contact space opera of a strange, hostile world. Vivid, atmospheric golden-age pulp. Read it for a rousing tale of a lost ship, alien insect-races, and peril across the blue swamplands of a far planet.

In its time

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

Reading it

20 min read (a short story, a single idea, delivered and gone).

Illustrated by

Leo Morey