Frederic Arnold Kummer 29 min read

It was cold and clear as ice that night, and starlight threw weird shadows across the plain of Ceres, where a lonely young man gazed out from the dark administration building.

Frederic Arnold Kummer's 1940 story is an atmospheric space-opera adventure of the asteroid frontier. Vivid, evocative golden-age pulp. Read it for a rousing tale where a solitary youth raised on a mining asteroid is swept into the orbit of a notorious star pirate, and adventure at last finds him.

In its time

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

Reading it

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

Illustrated by

Dan Eron