Donald A. Wollheim 26 min read

On the high battlements of her palace, Oomith, mataiya of Toom, looks out over her doomed land, for the lords of Nimbor demand surrender, and offer her life only if she weds their prince.

Donald A. Wollheim's 1940 story is a colorful space-opera adventure of war on a distant world. Vivid, driven golden-age pulp. Read it for a rousing planetary romance where a proud ruler faces conquest and a forced marriage, and the strange fate of a forgotten world hangs on her defiance.

In its time

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

Reading it

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

Illustrated by

Leo Morey