Henry Kuttner 42 min read

Waiting for a late stratoship in the Manhattan Port Room, the narrator spots his old classmate Steve Arnsen, rakehell, Herculean, forever dragging poor Doug O'Brien into trouble and out again.

Henry Kuttner's 1942 story is an atmospheric psi-powers space opera of an enchantress among the stars. Vivid, richly imagined golden-age pulp. Read it for a rousing pulp adventure where an old friendship reunites for a strange voyage, drawn toward a crystalline Circe whose beauty and power ensnare all who reach her.

In its time

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

Reading it

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

Illustrated by

John B. Musacchia