
John Holder, a brilliant but captive physicist, is locked inside a stark, surveillance‑filled laboratory deep in the Urals. The Red commissars stalk his every
Language
en
Duration
~29 minutes (27K characters)
Publisher of text edition
Project Gutenberg
Credits
Greg Weeks, Mary Meehan and the Online Distributed Proofreading Team at http://www.pgdp.net
Release date
2021-05-15
Rights
Public domain in the USA.

1907–1977
A prolific pulp-era storyteller, he wrote fast-moving science fiction and fantasy for magazines and paperbacks, often under several pen names. His work helped fill the shelves of mid-20th-century genre reading with lost worlds, strange futures, and nonstop adventure.
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