Sewell Peaslee Wright 41 min read

'I do not wish to appear prejudiced against scientists,' the old Special Patrol officer begins, but having observed the scientific mind in action many times, he finds it rather incomprehensible.

Sewell Peaslee Wright's 1933 story is a rousing space-opera adventure from his Commander John Hanson series. Vivid, wry golden-age pulp. Read it for a genial old spaceman's yarn of the early Special Patrol Service, and a perilous mission into the death-traps of a deadly world.

In its time

Published in 1933, during the 1930s, space opera soars.

Reading it

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