Edmond Hamilton 1 hr 37 min read

Jay Wales looks past the Earth to a faint spark far across the solar system, an insignificant pinpoint of light that is, in truth, the hand of God reaching to end the world on September 27th, 1997.

Edmond Hamilton's 1956 story builds a somber post-apocalyptic tale around an approaching cosmic doom. Elegiac, dramatic golden-age SF. Read it for a haunting story of humanity in its dying hour, awaiting an inescapable reckoning from the depths of space.

In its time

Published in 1956, during the 1950s, post-war optimism meets cold war anxiety.

Reading it

1 hr 37 min read (a novella, a full arc in one sitting or two).