Robert Emmett McDowell 20 min read

Jonathan Fawkes opens his eyes flat on his back, a frightened yellow-haired girl bending over him, the sky for a roof, though he distinctly remembers falling asleep in his bunk aboard the space ship.

Robert Emmett McDowell's 1945 story is a colorful, comic space-opera adventure of a shipwreck on a strange world. Fun, breezy golden-age pulp. Read it for a genial castaway yarn where a space pilot wakes marooned among unexpected company, and the happy castaway of the title finds his crash landing full of surprises.

In its time

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

Reading it

20 min read (a short story, a single idea, delivered and gone).

Illustrated by

Murphy Anderson