Harl Vincent 38 min read

Blinded by the naked sun through a porthole, mighty Luke Fenton reels back cursing, a swaggering convict newly delivered to Vulcan's Workshop, the most frightful of all the Martian prisons.

Harl Vincent's 1932 story is a rousing dystopian space opera. Vivid, driven golden-age pulp. Read it for a colorful pulp adventure set in a brutal prison colony on the sun-scorched asteroid Vulcan, where a defiant convict faces horrors and injustice, in the wonder-and-peril style of the classic scientifiction magazines.

In its time

Published in 1932, during the 1930s, space opera soars.

Reading it

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