Sam Moskowitz 13 min read

Stranded on bleak, wind-scoured Ganymede with a wrecked cruiser and empty fuel tanks, all because he forgot to check them, John Hall curses his fate amid the grotesque hills and bitter cold.

Sam Moskowitz's 1941 story is a rousing horror-tinged space opera. Vivid, driven golden-age pulp. Read it for a colorful pulp yarn of a marooned spaceman confronting a strange menace on a hostile Jovian moon, in the fast-moving, wonder-and-dread style of the classic space-adventure magazines, from a writer better remembered as SF's great historian.

In its time

Published in 1941, during the 1940s, the golden age begins.

Reading it

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

Illustrated by

Don Lynch