Donald A. Wollheim 11 min read

A phantom land and a phantom folk come sailing out of the deep unknown, and when Kendall sights a planet where the space-charts show nothing but emptiness, Broster is sure he's daft and dreaming.

Donald A. Wollheim's 1941 story is an atmospheric first-contact space opera of a world that shouldn't exist. Sharp, eerie golden-age pulp. Read it for a moody tale where explorers find a planet in a place the charts call empty, and the illusion of the title conceals a genuine and unsettling mystery.

In its time

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

Reading it

11 min read (a short story, a single idea, delivered and gone).

Illustrated by

John Giunta