Basil Wells 48 min read

On a blistering alien plain, the sun-hardened wanderer Hardan Synn reins in his golden-furred mount as its ears cup toward a discordant sound, the first note of an adventure to come.

Basil Wells's 1948 story is a rousing sword-and-planet space opera. Vivid, driven golden-age pulp. Read it for a colorful pulp adventure of a hardened frontier rover and a mysterious woman from the stars, blending planetary romance with fast-moving action, in the wonder-and-peril style of the classic space-adventure magazines.

In its time

Published in 1948, during the 1940s, the golden age begins.

Reading it

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