W. Bradford Martin 49 min read

The Resistance began the moment the great ship from Trygon II appeared on Palomar's plates, landing at Idlewild, granting Terra fifteen days to submit, then crushing the feeble opposition.

W. Bradford Martin's 1953 story is a rousing space-opera adventure of Earth under alien tyranny. Vivid, driven golden-age pulp. Read it for a classic conquest-and-resistance yarn where humanity, given an ultimatum by the overwhelming Trygonians, refuses to surrender and takes the fight to the stars.

In its time

Published in 1953, during the 1950s, post-war optimism meets cold war anxiety.

Reading it

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