Wilbur S. Peacock 1 hr 3 min read

Kimball Trent is the last hope of a ravaged Earth, secrets locked in his mind that could free the enslaved Barbs, if only he can solve the riddle of the blue monsters who cannot die.

Wilbur S. Peacock's 1945 Planet Stories tale is a rousing space-opera adventure of resistance and alien horror. Vivid, driven golden-age pulp. Read it for a colorful pulp yarn where a lone hero, waking cold and lost, holds the key to overthrowing the deathless spider-men who rule a conquered world.

In its time

Published in 1945, during the 1940s, the golden age begins.

Reading it

1 hr 3 min read (a novelette, room for a turn or two).

Illustrated by

Ronald Clyne