Paul Ernst 1 hr 43 min read

What is the mystery of Jupiter's famous Red Spot? Captain Brand Bowen is ordered to fly low over the red area and find out, like the comrades who flew there before him, and vanished.

Paul Ernst's 1931 story is a rousing space-opera adventure of a Jovian mystery. Vivid, driven golden-age pulp. Read it for a colorful pulp yarn where explorers penetrate the deadly Red Spot of Jupiter and confront the sinister Pipe-men, in a headlong tale of peril on the giant planet.

In its time

Published in 1931, during the 1930s, space opera soars.

Reading it

1 hr 43 min read (a novella, a full arc in one sitting or two).