Robert Emmett McDowell 1 hr 38 min read

Naked and helpless in the slime of a vile world, Jupiter Jones curses the space warp that flung him among its mutants, who hail him a knight in shining armor against the terrible octopods.

Robert Emmett McDowell's 1949 Planet Stories tale is a rousing sword-and-planet space opera. Vivid, colorful golden-age pulp. Read it for a full-blooded pulp adventure where a stranded Earthman becomes the reluctant champion of a downtrodden people against monstrous alien oppressors.

In its time

Published in 1949, during the 1940s, the golden age begins.

Reading it

1 hr 38 min read (a novella, a full arc in one sitting or two).