Bertrand Shurtleff 48 min read

In a war among the worlds, silence itself becomes a weapon, and for one crew, the absence of sound spells not safety but sudden, creeping death.

Bertrand Shurtleff's 1942 story is a tense military space opera built on an ingenious deadly premise. Sharp, gripping golden-age pulp. Read it for a taut wartime SF adventure where quiet is the enemy, and men must fight a menace that strikes hardest when all is still.

In its time

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

Reading it

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

Illustrated by

William A. Kolliker