Joseph Samachson 26 min read

To all who didn't know him, Curt George was a mighty hunter and actor, but this time he was up against others who could really act, and whose business was the hunting of whole worlds.

Joseph Samachson's 1952 story is a clever first-contact and adventure tale with a sharp twist. Sharp, ironic golden-age SF. Read it for a story where a celebrated big-game showman meets predators far beyond his experience, alien hunters for whom entire planets are the quarry, in a tale with a memorable sting.

In its time

Published in 1952, during the 1950s, post-war optimism meets cold war anxiety.

Reading it

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

Illustrated by

H. R. Van Dongen