Desmond Winter Hall 52 min read

Lieutenant Chris Travers drops his scout plane from the flagship dirigible and zooms six thousand feet into the morning blue, leader of the fleet's air patrol, and about to meet an unseen enemy.

Desmond Winter Hall's 1931 story is a fast military and hard-SF tale of invisible attackers menacing a naval fleet. Vivid, kinetic golden-age pulp. Read it for a rousing air-and-sea adventure where a pilot must battle raiders no eye can see.

In its time

Published in 1931, during the 1930s, space opera soars.

Reading it

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