Nelson S. Bond 27 min read

A classified ad in Spaceways Weekly seeks one Paul Moran, last seen taking off for parts unlogged, and Captain McNeally little suspects why Brait is so sure the man will never answer it.

Nelson S. Bond's 1940 story is an atmospheric psi-powers and space-opera tale with a somber secret. Sharp, haunting golden-age pulp. Read it for a story where a routine newspaper notice unlocks the strange fate of a castaway of space, and the reason a fortune waiting on Earth will go forever unclaimed.

In its time

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

Reading it

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

Illustrated by

Leon Rosenthal