Murray Leinster 45 min read

On August 16, 1942, a monstrous alien war-engine, a 'Wabbly', lands in New Jersey and throws the whole Eastern Coast into a panic, its true weapon not firepower but terror.

Murray Leinster's 1941 story is a prescient hard-SF and military tale about the decisive power of civilian morale in modern war. Sharp, inventive golden-age SF. Read it for a striking story where the greatest threat of a war-machine is the fear it spreads, and the men who must break its spell.

In its time

Published in 1941, during the 1940s, the golden age begins.

Reading it

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