Albert dePina 49 min read

Fermin the Arch-Mutant rises before dawn in the garnet light of Ganymede, ruling his cold cloister and plotting an ironic anti-climax to the fallen history of the Jovian worlds.

Albert dePina's 1945 story is a lush, atmospheric post-apocalyptic space opera. Ornate, imaginative golden-age pulp. Read it for a richly styled Planet Stories yarn of mutant overlords and a spreading plague among the moons of Jupiter, in a colorful tale of decadence, intrigue, and cosmic menace.

In its time

Published in 1945, during the 1940s, the golden age begins.

Reading it

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

Illustrated by

Murphy Anderson