R. R. Winterbotham 20 min read

In the eternal twilight of Mercury, where roasting day meets perpetual night, Cappy Upjohn and young Terry Hall push through phosphorescent giant ferns toward a race that kills with thought alone.

R. R. Winterbotham's 1942 story is a rousing psi-powers space opera. Vivid, driven golden-age pulp. Read it for a colorful pulp adventure into the weird borderland of Mercury, where explorers face mind-wielding alien menaces, in a lively yarn of danger and wonder on the twilight world between fire and ice.

In its time

Published in 1942, during the 1940s, the golden age begins.

Reading it

20 min read (a short story, a single idea, delivered and gone).

Illustrated by

Don Lynch