Larry Sternig 23 min read

Rocketport dispatcher Mart Wells, still forgetting he weighs only thirty-six pounds on Callisto, bangs into a window leaping out of bed, the comic opening of a moon-frontier invasion yarn.

Larry Sternig's 1945 story is a rousing space-opera adventure. Vivid, driven golden-age pulp. Read it for a colorful pulp yarn of romance and menace on a Jovian moon, where a lovesick dispatcher faces an invader from Venus, in the fast-moving, light-gravity, wonder-and-action style of the classic space-adventure magazines.

In its time

Published in 1945, during the 1940s, the golden age begins.

Reading it

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