Nelson S. Bond 1 hr 34 min read

Marooned on Titan with a wrecked ship, a handful of survivors must build a new life on a hostile moon, under bespectacled secretary Gregory Malcolm, whose only adventures were in books.

Nelson S. Bond's 1944 story is a rousing colonization space opera. Vivid, engaging golden-age pulp. Read it for a colorful Planet Stories survival tale where an unlikely bookish hero rises to lead castaways on a deadly Saturnian moon, proving mettle where it's least expected, in the wonder-and-peril style of the classic space-adventure magazines.

In its time

Published in 1944, during the 1940s, the golden age begins.

Reading it

1 hr 34 min read (a novella, a full arc in one sitting or two).

Illustrated by

Graham Ingels