Nelson S. Bond 11 min read

On the perihelion run through the asteroids, spacemen salute an unwinking beacon, the final resting place of Blaster Bill, and hereby hangs a tale of ancient days and ships.

Nelson S. Bond's 1941 story is a rollicking space-opera adventure told in ballad style. Vivid, jaunty golden-age pulp. Read it for a genial tall-tale of the spaceways, where the legend of a lone spacer's beacon unfolds into a rousing yarn of grit and sacrifice, from a favorite pulp storyteller.

In its time

Published in 1941, during the 1940s, the golden age begins.

Reading it

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

Illustrated by

Don Lynch