Arthur Dekker Savage 12 min read

'Oluf!' 'Bowron!' Two men recognize each other by a hidden lake, old friends who thought there was nothing but mountains, wolves, and Wild Ones between them and civilization.

Arthur Dekker Savage's 1952 story is an atmospheric post-apocalyptic and social-SF tale of scattered survivors. Warm, evocative golden-age SF. Read it for a story of two weary men meeting far from the ruins of New York, trading news of a broken world as they head south to outlast its harsh and lonely winters.

In its time

Published in 1952, during the 1950s, post-war optimism meets cold war anxiety.

Reading it

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