Robert W. Krepps 1 hr 17 min read

The Air Force believed in the flying saucers, and ran its on-again, off-again cover-up because a war-nervous public couldn't be told the whole terrifying truth all at once.

Robert W. Krepps's 1955 story spins a tense first-contact and post-apocalyptic tale from the real UFO panics of its era. Sharp, atmospheric golden-age SF. Read it for a story that takes the saucer scare seriously and asks what the truth behind it might actually cost.

In its time

Published in 1955, during the 1950s, post-war optimism meets cold war anxiety.

Reading it

1 hr 17 min read (a novella, a full arc in one sitting or two).

Illustrated by

W. E. Terry