Randall Garrett 3 hr 40 min read

A single implacable alien crash-lands on Earth, and humanity must engineer a man capable of matching it, the full novel.

Randall Garrett's 1963 novel expands his Analog serial into a tense duel: to stop a lone, deadly extraterrestrial, Earth deliberately creates a superman to face it, at terrible personal cost. Smart, hard-edged SF about the price of building a champion. Read it for gripping idea-driven adventure that asks what it takes, and what it costs, to meet an alien on its own terms.

In its time

Published in 1963, during the 1960s, new wave revolutionizes the genre.

Reading it

3 hr 40 min read (a novel-length work, settle in).