Robert Emmett McDowell 1 hr 45 min read

Since Terra's ships began vanishing on the Earth-to-Jupiter run, everyone travelling through space must carry an identity book, and Norman Saint Clair, strapping in, is far from reassured.

Robert Emmett McDowell's 1945 story is an atmospheric post-apocalyptic space opera of a menace on the spaceways. Vivid, driven golden-age pulp. Read it for a moody pulp tale where ships disappear one by one on a deadly space route, and a nervous traveler is drawn into the mystery of the great green blight.

In its time

Published in 1945, during the 1940s, the golden age begins.

Reading it

1 hr 45 min read (a novella, a full arc in one sitting or two).

Illustrated by

C. A. Murphy