Erik Fennel 16 min read

An amphibious invasion force closes on a fog-shrouded island, and a rescued nurse and radioman show a strange indifference to the coming battle.

Erik Fennel's 1947 story opens with the full weight of a WWII-style Pacific assault bearing down on a mysterious island, its tension centered on two survivors who seem to know something the task force doesn't. Vivid, atmospheric military-SF with a well-hidden secret. Read it for gripping golden-age SF that fuses war-story realism with a creeping sense of the uncanny.

In its time

Published in 1947, during the 1940s, the golden age begins.

Reading it

16 min read (a short story, a single idea, delivered and gone).