Jan Dirk 19 min read

Two young engineering students, drawn together by their shared passion for radio, tinker with their gleaming superheterodyne, and stumble onto rays that open the door to adventure.

Jan Dirk's 1925 story is an early hard-SF adventure of amateur radio and scientific discovery. Earnest, inventive, of its Gernsbackian era. Read it for a period tale where two college radio enthusiasts' hobby leads them into a wondrous scientific mystery.

In its time

Published in 1925, during the 1920s, the pulp era proper.

Reading it

19 min read (a short story, a single idea, delivered and gone).