Carl Selwyn 57 min read

'It's too risky to go alone, Johnny,' Rick Norman says, his big fingers busy under the table with two green Martian knockout capsules, enough to put his reckless friend out for a week.

Carl Selwyn's 1944 story is a colorful space-opera adventure of a quest for a Fountain of Youth. Vivid, fast golden-age pulp. Read it for a rousing pulp yarn where a daredevil adventurer and his worried friend set out for the sun-scorched world of Vulcan and the deadly citadel that guards its secret.

In its time

Published in 1944, during the 1940s, the golden age begins.

Reading it

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

Illustrated by

Lee Elias