Treasure of Triton

"Treasure of Triton" by Charles A. Baker is a science fiction story set in the 1940s about Wolf Larsen, a space pirate, and his dangerous pursuit of the Eye of Triton on Neptune's frozen moon. The story follows Larsen's relentless quest for a legendary gem, which leads him through a harsh alien landscape populated by strange Tritonians. Driven by immense greed, Larsen uses his cunning to overcome obstacles, but his ambitious mission ends in a darkly humorous tragedy when the prized Eye of Triton is revealed to be nothing more than a block of ice, which leads to his demise from injury and dehydration, underscoring the themes of ambition's vanity and survival's harsh realities in the vast, unforgiving cosmos.