Nelson S. Bond 16 min read

Though Man now jets from Earth to the dimmest star, he is subject still to the Universal Law: whoever plots for another's lot has a price to pay in the end.

Nelson S. Bond's 1942 story is a rollicking space-opera adventure told in ballad style. Vivid, jaunty golden-age pulp. Read it for a genial spaceways tall-tale, where a pioneer's fortunes and the legend of Venus Nell play out under the cosmic rule that greed for a fellow's due always comes due.

In its time

Published in 1942, during the 1940s, the golden age begins.

Reading it

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

Illustrated by

Don Lynch