
A lone warrior‑mechanic named Kane finds himself stranded on a blistering, mirage‑filled desert of a far‑off Procyon world. The heat drives life to the edge, and the alien, silver‑skinned mount he rides is as unforgiving as the landscape itself. Hunted by copper‑skinned police troopers who view him as a heretic, he races against a swirling, relentless sandstorm while trying to keep his grip on both saddle and sanity.
Captured and dragged into a stark, windowless court, Kane must face a magistrate who doubts his story and a crowd that watches with hostile curiosity. The first act sets up a clash between an Earth‑born survivor and a technologically oppressive regime, hinting at deeper conspiracies and the cost of defying a powerful empire. Listeners are invited into a vivid, high‑stakes science‑fiction adventure where every breath could be the last.
Language
en
Duration
~2 hours (135K characters)
Publisher of text edition
Project Gutenberg
Credits
Produced by Greg Weeks, Mary Meehan and the Online Distributed Proofreading Team at http://www.pgdp.net
Release date
2020-12-02
Rights
Public domain in the USA.
1923–1973
A mid-century pulp sci-fi writer with a mysterious life story, he published fast-moving tales of space adventure, future war, and strange worlds in the great magazine era of science fiction. Much about him remains hazy, which only adds to the curiosity around his work.
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