Charles A. Baker 10 min read

On dead, frozen Triton, where the gravel is ruby and the boulders are titanic diamonds, one man, Wolf Larsen, lives and moves and breathes alone amid a vast, ancient desolation.

Charles A. Baker's 1941 story is a rousing, atmospheric space-opera adventure. Vivid, imaginative golden-age pulp. Read it for a colorful pulp yarn of fabulous jeweled treasure on a desolate moon of Neptune, and the lone adventurer who braves its dead wastes, in the wonder-and-peril style of the classic space-opera magazines.

In its time

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

Reading it

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

Illustrated by

Hannes Bok