Gardner F. Fox 41 min read

Irgi is the last of his race, alone for centuries in an eon-ancient city, wandering past golden drapes that never fade in the germ-killing mist he raised too late to save his kind.

Gardner F. Fox's 1945 story is an atmospheric, melancholy space-opera tale of a solitary survivor. Vivid, evocative golden-age pulp. Read it for a haunting story of the last being of a vanished people, dwelling alone in the domed splendor of a dead city, and the encounter that breaks his long solitude.

In its time

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

Reading it

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

Illustrated by

Graham Ingels