Nelson S. Bond 48 min read

Three drowsy bells end the lobster patrol, and junior watch Bud Chandler yawns for his bunk, an ordinary night's tedium aboard the void-hurtling Libra, before revolt breaks out on Io.

Nelson S. Bond's 1941 story is a fast, colorful military space opera of mutiny and rebellion on Jupiter's moon. Vivid, driven golden-age pulp. Read it for a rousing tale that opens in sleepy shipboard routine and erupts into revolt across the mining moon of Io.

In its time

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

Reading it

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

Illustrated by

Don Lynch