Ron Goulart 14 min read

An admirer, chosen to complete the unfinished stories of the venerable fantasist Arthur Wright Beemis, presents this historic tale, a gleeful send-up of old-school pulp adventure.

Ron Goulart's 1963 story is a wry, affectionate social-SF and space-opera parody. Fun, clever golden-age SF. Read it for classic Goulart comedy, a loving spoof of creaky pulp-adventure conventions, framed as the 'completion' of a hack fantasist's unfinished work, in a witty golden-age piece that pokes gentle fun at the whole tradition of Burroughs-style planetary romance.

In its time

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

Reading it

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

Illustrated by

Leo Summers