Carl Selwyn 1 hr 4 min read

On television screens across an ice-bound world, London, Moscow, Singapore, New York's buried city, the cameras watch police surround a building where something crucial is unfolding.

Carl Selwyn's 1947 story opens on a vividly rendered frozen future Earth, launching a post-apocalyptic space-opera tale. Atmospheric, cinematic golden-age SF. Read it for a story that sets its planetary catastrophe against the glare of live telenews and a world huddled underground.

In its time

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

Reading it

1 hr 4 min read (a novelette, room for a turn or two).

Illustrated by

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