Nelson S. Bond 1 hr 15 min read

Out of the endless night between the stars It comes, round but not quite round, hard but not quite hard, insensate, carried by chance toward a resting place.

Nelson S. Bond's 1942 story opens with an eerie, incantatory description of an inexplicable object drifting from the void into the realm of light and life. Atmospheric, mysterious first-contact space opera. Read it for moody golden-age SF that builds dread around a thing from Beyond and its slow, blind approach.

In its time

Published in 1942, during the 1940s, the golden age begins.

Reading it

1 hr 15 min read (a novella, a full arc in one sitting or two).

Illustrated by

Frank R. Paul