Hugh Frazier Parker 42 min read

Held prisoner by the dread Tsom Clan on Neptune and forced to build the monster bomb that will signal an invasion of a dozen worlds, little Timmy Gordon and Johnny Damokles must find a way to stop it.

Hugh Frazier Parker's 1943 story is a rousing space-opera adventure. Vivid, driven golden-age pulp. Read it for a colorful Planet Stories yarn of captivity, courage, and sabotage among the outer planets, where a boy and his friend defy a tyrant's clan to save the peaceful worlds from a devastating weapon.

In its time

Published in 1943, during the 1940s, the golden age begins.

Reading it

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

Illustrated by

Joseph Doolin