Harry Cord & Otis Adelbert Kline 47 min read

Out of the dawn sky it comes, slanting like a fiery meteor, hissing like a nest of angry snakes, and plunges into the Sound a hundred yards from Frank Hammond's little skiff.

Kline and Cord's 1942 story opens on a startling arrival, launching a fast military space opera of Martian invaders. Colorful, kinetic golden-age pulp. Read it for a rousing tale of alien menace falling from the sky and the men who must rise to meet it.

In its time

Published in 1942, during the 1940s, the golden age begins.

Reading it

47 min read (a novelette, room for a turn or two).

Illustrated by

Alexander Leydenfrost