William Conover 54 min read

Given one last chance to redeem himself by capturing the pirate Koerber, Firebrand Dennis Brooke instead finds himself marooned on a rogue planet, battling a menace that weapons cannot kill.

William Conover's 1944 story is a rousing, atmospheric horror-tinged space opera. Vivid, driven golden-age pulp. Read it for a colorful Planet Stories yarn where a disgraced officer confronts an implacable, unkillable horror on a wandering world, in a tale of redemption, dread, and pulp derring-do among the stars.

In its time

Published in 1944, during the 1940s, the golden age begins.

Reading it

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

Illustrated by

Graham Ingels