“Flight on Titan”
1935-01-00
novelette
By Stanley G. Weinbaum

Alternate Titles:
“A Man, a Maid, and Saturn’s Temptation”


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Synopsis

After their hut is destroyed by an ice slide, two prospectors on Titan brave the howling winds to make it to the city a hundred miles away.

History

First publication: Astounding, January 1935

Review

Even more than A Martian Odyssey, this story shows the incredible world-building imagination of Stanley Weinbaum. He doesn’t get deep into the characterization, but the story is really about the environment and the creatures he imagines could thrive in it. And the struggle of the two people to survive the trek across a hostile landscape. Recommended.

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We have the story in these editions:

The Red Peri, hardcover, Fantasy Press, 1952-00-00