Edwin K. Sloat 37 min read

Wearily gripping the controls of a little space sphere a million miles sunward of Mercury, Evan Winford leads a desperate escape from the prison mines, with the guards already hunting him.

Edwin K. Sloat's 1932 story is a rousing space-opera adventure of a daring prison break. Vivid, driven golden-age pulp. Read it for a colorful early-pulp yarn of escape and pursuit through the void, where a fugitive matches nerve and cunning against the whole Interplanetary Council to win his freedom among the planets.

In its time

Published in 1932, during the 1930s, space opera soars.

Reading it

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