Vulcan's Workshop

The year is 1930. Luke Fenton is a convict with a convict's philosophy: strength rules everything. When he's shipped to the penal colony on Vulcan, a hellish world with crushing gravity and poison-thin air, he figures he'll survive the way he always has: by being the toughest man in any room. He's wrong. Vulcan breaks men not through violence alone but through relentless, grinding degradation. The guards are brutal. The work is lethal. A disease called X.C. sweeps through the barracks, killing slowly. And Luke discovers that the one asset he never bothered to develop might be the only thing that saves him: his mind. He finds an unlikely ally in Tom Fuller, a scientist condemned for reasons the book never fully explains and nursing an escape plan that sounds like suicide. Together, they face a choice: accept their slow destruction or risk everything on one impossible bid for freedom. This is pulp science fiction at its most vital. Vincent writes with the stripped-down efficiency of an era when stories had to move, and the result still crackles ninety years later. It's for readers who want their science fiction with rough edges and a beating heart.