Robert Moore Williams 1 hr 6 min read

'There are at least two planets circling Vega!' cries Ron Val at the telescope, one with an atmosphere, and lakes, and something no astronomer's preconceptions had prepared them to find.

Robert Moore Williams's 1942 story is a colorful first-contact space opera of discovery around a distant star. Vivid, wondering golden-age pulp. Read it for a rousing tale of explorers reaching a Vegan world that overturns everything science thought it knew.

In its time

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

Reading it

1 hr 6 min read (a novelette, room for a turn or two).