Murray Leinster 58 min read

Ages after Earth's colonists were lost, their descendants scratch out a savage existence on a world overrun by monstrous insects and rampant fungus, giants of a runaway biosphere.

Murray Leinster's story concludes his celebrated 'Mad Planet' series (begun 1923), a vivid saga of humanity dwarfed by giant bugs. Colorful, imaginative, classic. Read it for the final chapter of a beloved early-SF epic of survival on a world where insects rule.

In its time

Published in 1923, during the 1920s, the pulp era proper.

Reading it

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