Ray Cummings 1 hr 4 min read

The narrator sets the record straight on the pioneer voyage to Zura, the weird little wandering asteroid that has never returned, of which he and his wife are, so to speak, the sole survivors.

Ray Cummings's 1940 story is a colorful space-opera adventure of exploration and revolt on a vanished asteroid. Vivid, atmospheric golden-age pulp. Read it for a rousing tale of a strange wandering world, its ice empire, and the rebellion that made its explorers the last to ever see it.

In its time

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

Reading it

1 hr 4 min read (a novelette, room for a turn or two).

Illustrated by

Leo Morey