Joseph E. Kelleam 2 hr 43 min read

At midnight in Kansas, both clock hands pointing to the ceiling and the limitless stars beyond, a half-dreaming man remembers his friends, and is drawn toward something out of space.

Joseph E. Kelleam's 1954 story opens on a quiet, wistful night before its first-contact space-opera adventure unfolds. Atmospheric, evocative golden-age SF. Read it for a story that begins in a sleepy Kansas study and reaches out toward hunters from beyond the sky.

In its time

Published in 1954, during the 1950s, post-war optimism meets cold war anxiety.

Reading it

2 hr 43 min read (a novel-length work, settle in).