Carl Selwyn 40 min read

The jungle rings with the shouts of hunters as strange feathered deer-like animals stampede in panic into a hidden corral, where a tall, bare-chested young man waits, motionless as an ironwood tree.

Carl Selwyn's 1946 story is a colorful space-opera adventure of a wild frontier world. Vivid, kinetic golden-age pulp. Read it for a rousing jungle-planet yarn where a lone hunter, strange beasts, and a mysterious quarry, the Space Bat, set an exotic adventure in motion.

In its time

Published in 1946, during the 1940s, the golden age begins.

Reading it

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