Gardner F. Fox 1 hr 12 min read

Tyr stretches on the warm white sands of Lyallar and smiles: it is good to be alive, even if he is a god, waiting on his ruby throne for his people to come and worship him again.

Gardner F. Fox's 1946 story is a colorful AI-and-colonization space opera of a manufactured deity. Vivid, imaginative golden-age pulp. Read it for a rousing tale where a being set up as a god on a strange world begins to question his throne, and the truth of what the sun-gods made carries a sharp turn.

In its time

Published in 1946, during the 1940s, the golden age begins.

Reading it

1 hr 12 min read (a novelette, room for a turn or two).

Illustrated by

Rube Moore