Ross Rocklynne 48 min read

Darkness, the energy-being who crossed the void between universes seeking the answer to life, is gone, and his daughter Sun Destroyer plunges back along his trail, hunting the wise old Oldster.

Ross Rocklynne's 1951 story continues his cosmic-scale saga of vast living stars and energy-creatures. Grand, imaginative, poetic golden-age SF. Read it for a sweeping tale of star-sized beings seeking transcendence across the higher bands of hyperspace.

In its time

Published in 1951, during the 1950s, post-war optimism meets cold war anxiety.

Reading it

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

Illustrated by

Robert Fuqua