C. C. MacApp 29 min read

Whisked to the Andes by jet bomber and dodging a sniper's bullets, a scientist is rushed toward a discovery too urgent to explain.

C. C. MacApp's 1962 story opens with Dr. Luis Craig hitting the dirt as gunfire erupts on a remote airfield, the breathless secrecy of his summons hinting at first contact of the strangest kind. Fast, intriguing SF that plunges its bewildered hero straight into danger. Read it for propulsive golden-age mystery that keeps you as off-balance as its hero.

In its time

Published in 1962, during the 1960s, new wave revolutionizes the genre.

Reading it

29 min read (a novelette, room for a turn or two).

Illustrated by

Jack Gaughan