Sam Carson 25 min read

'I've seen a world die,' says navigator Jerry Kos, 'and with it men who chose to remain and face the end because of love', love of home, of the soil, of the life they'd built.

Sam Carson's 1941 story is a poignant post-apocalyptic space opera of a doomed world and those who won't leave it. Moving, atmospheric golden-age pulp. Read it for a reflective tale, framed as a warning to young Earth, of a dying planet and the men who chose to perish with the homes they loved.

In its time

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

Reading it

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

Illustrated by

John R. Forte