Give Back a World

The first colonists to land on Mercury find more than a hostile world to tame. Beneath the scorched surface of the closest planet to the sun lie ruins of an ancient civilization, remnants of the Martians and the mysterious Xians who once waged cosmic war across this corner of the solar system. When the human expedition begins to uncover the truth about these vanished races, they discover that some legacies are better left buried. Raymond Z. Gallun, one of the foundational voices of golden age science fiction, delivers a tale that pulses with the reckless optimism and existential dread that defined an era of speculative fiction. The crew of would-be colonizers must not only survive Mercury\'s brutal landscape but reckon with what humanity\'s expansion means for the ghosts of worlds that came before. This is frontier horror with a telescope, where the final frontier is also a graveyard.