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Luke Fenton is a hulking, hard‑won survivor whose life of brawls and rebellion has finally landed him in the infamous Vulcan’s Workshop, a Martian prison so feared that no inmate is ever spoken of again. After a reckless glance at the sun through an unshielded porthole leaves him temporarily blinded, he awakens in a stark, steel‑walled cell, his mind still racing with the memories of countless riots, mutinies, and the brutal showdown that sealed his fate.
The narrative follows Luke’s gritty determination as he confronts the alien harshness of a penal camp far beyond Earth, where the very environment seems designed to break even the toughest spirits. Against a backdrop of red‑dusted corridors and relentless overseers, his fierce independence and raw strength become both his greatest weapons and his biggest liabilities, setting the stage for a tense struggle that tests the limits of human endurance in an unforgiving Martian landscape.
Language
en
Duration
~55 minutes (53K characters)
Publisher of text edition
Project Gutenberg
Credits
Produced by Greg Weeks and the Online Distributed Proofreading Team at https://www.pgdp.net
Release date
Jul 5, 2009
Rights
Public domain in the USA.
Subjects

1893–1968
A mechanical engineer who became a familiar name in early science-fiction magazines, this prolific pulp-era writer helped fill the genre with cosmic adventure, strange worlds, and brisk, imaginative storytelling. His stories appeared regularly in magazines such as Amazing Stories and Astounding during the genre’s formative years.
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