David R. Sparks 1 hr 1 min read

Waking handcuffed on the canted metal floor of a wrecked ship, feeling strangely strong amid a howling wind, the narrator touches the scar on his cheek to be sure he is still himself.

David R. Sparks's 1930 story is a rousing space-opera adventure. Vivid, driven golden-age pulp. Read it for a colorful early-pulp yarn of a castaway among the winged men of a strange world, full of captivity, battle, and wonder, in the breathless, imaginative style of the earliest space-adventure magazines.

In its time

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

Reading it

1 hr 1 min read (a novelette, room for a turn or two).