Bill Garson 35 min read

At first it is only a spider-thread of sound, soothing as balm to Kent Knight's burning brain, then it grows jagged edges and tears his mind open, from a furry little beast he touched.

Bill Garson's 1947 story is a vivid first-contact space opera of a deceptive alien menace. Sharp, gripping golden-age pulp. Read it for a rousing pulp yarn where an innocent-looking, kitten-soft creature on an asteroid conceals a terrible power, and the little pets of Arkkhan prove anything but harmless.

In its time

Published in 1947, during the 1940s, the golden age begins.

Reading it

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

Illustrated by

Herman B. Vestal