Murray Leinster 2 hr 57 min read

Waking on a mountain-flank the morning radar first reports something odd out in space, surveyor Lockley thinks only of the girl he can't stop dreaming about, before the world changes around him.

Murray Leinster's 1962 novel is a taut first-contact and military-SF thriller of an alien landing and its terror. Suspenseful, well-paced golden-age SF. Read it for a gripping tale where an ordinary man surveying a national park is caught up in humanity's first, frightening contact.

In its time

Published in 1962, during the 1960s, new wave revolutionizes the genre.

Reading it

2 hr 57 min read (a novel-length work, settle in).