Henry Hasse 33 min read

Disguised as an Earthman sunk in dissipation, the clear-eyed Ron Jordan slouches through the pirate base of Halo City on Ceres, a shabby drunk in appearance only, for he is here on a mission.

Henry Hasse's 1941 story is a rousing space-opera adventure. Vivid, driven golden-age pulp. Read it for a colorful pulp yarn of a secret agent infiltrating a den of space-pirates, where a clever disguise and a daring mission drive fast-moving action among the asteroids, in the breathless, atmospheric style of the classic Planet Stories era.

In its time

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

Reading it

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

Illustrated by

Hannes Bok