Ray Cummings 3 hr 6 min read

A young man wakes with no memory, not his birthplace, not even his world, encased in a rubber suit and helmet on a strange, star-blazing meteor, and must piece together who and what he is.

Ray Cummings's 1941 story is a rousing space-opera adventure. Vivid, imaginative golden-age pulp. Read it for a colorful pulp mystery of identity and survival on a tiny wandering worldlet, where an amnesiac hero unravels the secret of his own existence, in the breathless, wonder-filled style of a genre pioneer.

In its time

Published in 1941, during the 1940s, the golden age begins.

Reading it

3 hr 6 min read (a novel-length work, settle in).

Illustrated by

Hannes Bok