Ray Cummings 1 hr 6 min read

'My name is Robert Rance, you've heard of me, through the weird affair of the Crimson Comet.' A radio science reporter, hungry for fame, is plunged against his will into a blood-chilling ordeal.

Ray Cummings's 1945 story is a fast post-apocalyptic space opera of cosmic menace and reluctant heroism. Colorful, breathless golden-age pulp. Read it for a rousing tale narrated by a publicity-seeking newsman who gets far more adventure, and horror, than he ever wanted.

In its time

Published in 1945, during the 1940s, the golden age begins.

Reading it

1 hr 6 min read (a novelette, room for a turn or two).

Illustrated by

Graham Ingels