Charles V. De Vet 28 min read

Seven parsecs beyond the Rim, the survey team's trail is picked up by an electronic bloodhound, a viciously unpredictable alien hunter loosed to guard the worlds between two warring races.

Charles V. De Vet's 1957 story is a tense colonization and adventure tale of a deadly interstellar manhunt. Sharp, gripping golden-age SF. Read it for a taut chase across a savage planet, where marooned humans must outwit a relentless alien tracking machine on a world that offers no mercy of its own.

In its time

Published in 1957, during the 1950s, post-war optimism meets cold war anxiety.

Reading it

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

Illustrated by

Paul Orban