Robert Moore Williams 24 min read

Assistant Navigator Andy Horn hunts his missing pet 'Oscar' across a rocky ledge on Io, only to have a Ganymedian honey bear step daintily into view and calmly say, 'Hi, Bub.'

Robert Moore Williams's 1940 story is a genial, colorful space-opera adventure with a talking-animal twist. Fun, breezy golden-age pulp. Read it for a rousing romp on Jupiter's moon, where a spaceman's search for a wayward pet leads to peril and a very chatty companion.

In its time

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

Reading it

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

Illustrated by

Leon Rosenthal