Henry Hasse 25 min read

Too big for his tiny cruiser's seat, a man swings the directional finder across the heavens until he spots it, a dark shape blotting the stars, and he means to reach it before the Earth Patrol.

Henry Hasse's 1943 story is a fast, atmospheric space-opera adventure of pursuit and vengeance. Vivid, driven golden-age pulp. Read it for a rousing tale where a lone spacer races the law toward a mysterious derelict, and the revenge that awaits aboard it.

In its time

Published in 1943, during the 1940s, the golden age begins.

Reading it

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

Illustrated by

Joseph Doolin