Ross Rocklynne 46 min read

News that the fabled Unterzuyder map is out of hiding races across the planets, and the crook Bigger Bailes, scheming from Marsport, means to claim eighty-five years of reward money for himself.

Ross Rocklynne's 1954 story is a rousing space-opera adventure. Vivid, colorful golden-age pulp. Read it for a fast-moving pulp caper of a treasure map, a devious quarry, and rival schemers chasing a fortune across the planets, in the wonder-and-intrigue style of the classic space-adventure magazines, from a reliable golden-age craftsman.

In its time

Published in 1954, during the 1950s, post-war optimism meets cold war anxiety.

Reading it

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

Illustrated by

W. E. Terry