Arthur Leo Zagat 35 min read

'By the whirling rings of Saturn,' Darl Thomas growls, mopping sweat over a paper-strewn desk on scorching Mercury, wishing the ITA directors could sweat here a month before demanding their reports.

Arthur Leo Zagat's 1932 story is a rousing space-opera adventure on the blazing innermost planet. Vivid, driven golden-age pulp. Read it for a colorful pulp yarn where the men running Mercury's great protective dome face a sudden crisis, and a deadly threat to the outpost baking under the giant sun.

In its time

Published in 1932, during the 1930s, space opera soars.

Reading it

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