Arthur J. Burks 1 hr 39 min read

A mysterious ray lifts the great buildings of New York bodily into the sky, and a daring flight into the void must uncover the source, invisible masters lurking in the stratosphere.

Arthur J. Burks's 1933 story is a fast, imaginative space opera of aerial menace and first contact. Colorful, breathless golden-age pulp. Read it for a rousing tale of skyscrapers torn into the heavens and the desperate mission to confront the powers behind it.

In its time

Published in 1933, during the 1930s, space opera soars.

Reading it

1 hr 39 min read (a novella, a full arc in one sitting or two).