Alfred Coppel 1 hr 7 min read

Aram Jerrold watches helplessly as Santane's beast-rockets scream into the Void bearing madness to the Thirty Suns, cosmic Armageddon, and a voice commanding: you must save something from the ruins.

Alfred Coppel's 1950 Planet Stories tale is a sweeping post-apocalyptic space opera. Vivid, driven golden-age pulp. Read it for a rousing tale of galactic civilization crashing into ruin, and a condemned rebel charged with saving something, anything, from the wreck of the Thirty Suns.

In its time

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

Reading it

1 hr 7 min read (a novelette, room for a turn or two).

Illustrated by

Al McWilliams