George Henry Weiss 37 min read

Down-and-out and starving on a park bench, Justus Miles reads a windblown newspaper ad: 'Wanted: Soldier of Fortune, young, healthy; must have good credentials', and sets off, hungry, to answer it.

George Henry Weiss's 1931 story is a rousing lost-world and space-opera adventure. Vivid, driven golden-age pulp. Read it for a colorful pulp yarn where a desperate man answers a strange advertisement and is swept into an adventure among the uncanny heads of Apex, in the grand tradition of the weird-menace tale.

In its time

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

Reading it

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