Harl Vincent 1 hr 50 min read

Adrift and out of control, the RX8 streaks into the void with its priceless Martian cargo, until Blaine Carson wakes from a pink-gas hypnosis deep within Io, the copper-clad moon of Jupiter.

Harl Vincent's 1931 story is a rousing space-opera adventure of piracy and a strange inner world. Vivid, inventive golden-age pulp. Read it for a colorful pulp yarn where a hijacked cargo ship and a drugged pilot lead to a lost civilization within the copper-sheathed satellite of Jupiter.

In its time

Published in 1931, during the 1930s, space opera soars.

Reading it

1 hr 50 min read (a novella, a full arc in one sitting or two).