Carl Selwyn 37 min read

Sweat freezing on his brow, Rod Carver hacks toeholds up the sheer face of a glacier, creeping inch by precarious inch toward a patch of gray lichen hundreds of feet above the glistening crevice.

Carl Selwyn's 1940 story opens on a harrowing climb, building a dystopian space-opera tale of revolt on a strange world. Vivid, kinetic golden-age pulp. Read it for a rousing adventure that begins clinging to an ice wall and rises into rebellion against tyranny on the Earth-Star.

In its time

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

Reading it

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

Illustrated by

Bill Edwards