Manly Wade Wellman 1 hr 20 min read

Naked and dust-blind, a man revives face-down on the wind-scoured world of Dondromogon, knowing the language of the voice that answers him, but not who he is, or how he came to be there.

Manly Wade Wellman's 1944 story is a rousing sword-and-planet space opera. Vivid, driven golden-age pulp. Read it for a colorful planetary-romance adventure of an amnesiac hero summoned to a strange world to be its champion in war, in the wonder-and-peril style of the classic space-adventure magazines, from a versatile master of the pulps.

In its time

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

Reading it

1 hr 20 min read (a novella, a full arc in one sitting or two).

Illustrated by

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