Edmond Hamilton 25 min read

Tired in body and mind and nerve, Kellard stands in the silent hundred-year-old house on the California cliffs and looks out toward Big Sur, where the Pacific foams against the broken stones.

Edmond Hamilton's 1962 story is an atmospheric first-contact and hard-SF tale of a strange power in the sun. Vivid, thoughtful golden-age SF. Read it for a moody story by a master of the cosmic imagination, where a weary man's return to an old family house opens onto a wonder and a peril out of the heart of the sun.

In its time

Published in 1962, during the 1960s, new wave revolutionizes the genre.

Reading it

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

Illustrated by

Virgil Finlay