Therese Windser 12 min read

Legend says the drowned western continent rises once a century under a full moon, and Captain Hinrik, thought mad by his crew, sails the Semilunis to find whether civilization still survives there.

Therese Windser's 1960 story unfolds a post-apocalyptic quest across a ruined future Earth. Atmospheric, adventurous golden-age SF. Read it for a story of hope against a legend of doom, seeking the last survivors of a shattered world.

In its time

Published in 1960, during the 1960s, new wave revolutionizes the genre.

Reading it

12 min read (a short story, a single idea, delivered and gone).