Men Without a World

"Men Without a World" by Joseph Farrell is a science fiction adventure set in the Alpha Centauri system and written around the early 1940s. Following a crash landing on the desert planet Avignon, astronauts Paul Hawthorne and Lance O'Dea face a desperate fight for their survival and the future of mankind. The protagonists are captured by the Centaurs, aliens with a hidden agenda involving Earth, who initially pretend to terraform Avignon for human habitation, but revealing their true intentions later being to indoctrinate humans. As the plot unfolds, the astronauts discover they are pawns in the Centaurs' plot to reshape human thought, sparking a conflict over freedom and cultural dominance. Facing these odds, Hawthorne and O'Dea rally against their captors, creating a suspenseful narrative that combines action, humor, and the questioning of colonization.