Albert dePina 1 hr 2 min read

'In two hours the ionization towers will fail, look well upon your world, for we may never return.' A leader launches his people's last desperate flight from a doomed planet.

Albert dePina's 1947 story is a dramatic post-apocalyptic space opera of a race fleeing extinction. Vivid, atmospheric golden-age pulp. Read it for a sweeping tale of a people's final gamble for survival, seeking sanctuary on an Earth that fears their coming.

In its time

Published in 1947, during the 1940s, the golden age begins.

Reading it

1 hr 2 min read (a novelette, room for a turn or two).

Illustrated by

Herman B. Vestal