Bernard Wall 14 min read

Everyone should have known, should have known when they looked at the empty sky and the hungry children, that their last migratory hunt was almost over, forty days into a trail of vanishing hope.

Bernard Wall's 1959 story is a somber colonization and social-SF tale of a starving people at the end of their world. Atmospheric, mythic golden-age SF. Read it for a story told like legend, of a doomed band reaching the farthest edge of their frozen domain, and the strange rebirth that awaits them.

In its time

Published in 1959, during the 1950s, post-war optimism meets cold war anxiety.

Reading it

14 min read (a short story, a single idea, delivered and gone).