Nelson S. Bond 3 hr 49 min read

The Spica settles on its jets to the Long Island Spaceport, home from Luna, and young scientist Gary Lane glances at his chronometer with tense, strained eyes not like his usual easy nature.

Nelson S. Bond's 1943 story is a rousing military space opera of a threat to the worlds. Vivid, driven golden-age pulp. Read it for a fast-moving tale where two young scientists race against a looming cosmic peril, that the planets themselves may live, from a favorite pulp storyteller.

In its time

Published in 1943, during the 1940s, the golden age begins.

Reading it

3 hr 49 min read (a novel-length work, settle in).

Illustrated by

Robert Fuqua