Nathan Schachner 2 hr 21 min read

Hilary Grendon pilots his battered flier the Vagabond home to a smiling Earth, and finds alien diskoids in the stratosphere and out-world lords patrolling the cities of his own world.

Nathan Schachner's 1932 story is a rousing space-opera adventure of Earth under alien conquest. Vivid, fast-moving golden-age pulp. Read it for a classic invasion yarn where a lone space-wanderer returns to a subjugated homeworld and takes up the fight against its Mercurian masters.

In its time

Published in 1932, during the 1930s, space opera soars.

Reading it

2 hr 21 min read (a novella, a full arc in one sitting or two).