Richard Wilson 42 min read

'Will you stop chasing that meteor?' Myra scolds her husband, hunched over the controls, but Steve grins: 'Papa's in the money,' for the strange-colored rock they pursue is a flying goldmine.

Richard Wilson's 1942 story is a colorful psi-powers space opera of a fateful chase. Vivid, driven golden-age pulp. Read it for a rousing tale where a couple's pursuit of a valuable meteor draws them toward the mysterious man from Siykul and an adventure far larger than a prospecting run.

In its time

Published in 1942, during the 1940s, the golden age begins.

Reading it

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

Illustrated by

Robert A. Graef