Sam Moskowitz 48 min read

Lost amid the stark immensity of unfamiliar stars, Michel Drawers lets his useless star-map drift away and faces cold reality: he must sweep the void alone in search of the long way home.

Sam Moskowitz's 1941 story is an atmospheric space-opera adventure. Vivid, driven golden-age pulp. Read it for a colorful pulp yarn of a spaceman lost in the trackless deep and his desperate, hopeful search for a familiar star, in a tale of isolation and endurance from a writer better remembered as SF's great historian.

In its time

Published in 1941, during the 1940s, the golden age begins.

Reading it

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

Illustrated by

John R. Forte