Leroy Yerxa 44 min read

A perilous voyage through the deadly asteroid belt carries its crew toward a hell of danger and menace, in a colorful, fast-moving pulp space adventure.

Leroy Yerxa's 1942 story is a rousing space-opera adventure. Vivid, driven golden-age pulp. Read it for a breathless Amazing Stories yarn of hazard and heroism amid the flying mountains of the asteroid belt, in the colorful, action-packed style of the wartime pulps, where every voyage is a gamble and every page a fresh peril.

In its time

Published in 1942, during the 1940s, the golden age begins.

Reading it

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

Illustrated by

C. Martin