Victor A. Endersby 30 min read

Sheltering from a sudden thunderstorm under a great oak with his brother and his brother's fiancée, a man's ordinary afternoon splits open into the extraordinary.

Victor A. Endersby's 1932 story opens on a vivid, atmospheric summer storm before its space-opera premise strikes. Evocative, well-written early pulp SF. Read it for a tale that begins in the quiet of an English field and is torn loose into something vast and strange.

In its time

Published in 1932, during the 1930s, space opera soars.

Reading it

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