Sewell Peaslee Wright 35 min read

'This is a story I never intended to tell,' Commander Hanson begins, and would not tell now, but for the Zenians and their tiresome boasting about the exploits of Ame Baove.

Sewell Peaslee Wright's 1931 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 Special Patrol Service, and a strange encounter with an alien people and the god they keep, quite literally, in a box.

In its time

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

Reading it

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