Mary Carlson 10 min read

Crash-landed a hundred and fifty miles from the colony on a world of three suns, Curt wakes at dawn amid the wreckage of his airship, hurt and alone, with rescue perhaps a week away.

Mary Carlson's 1963 story is a tense colonization and first-contact survival tale. Sharp, atmospheric golden-age SF. Read it for a gripping story of a stranded colonist alone in an alien wilderness, facing the elements and the unknown as the time of cold closes in, in a lean, suspenseful tale of endurance on a strange new world.

In its time

Published in 1963, during the 1960s, new wave revolutionizes the genre.

Reading it

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