Robert W. Krepps 2 hr 23 min read

The day Revel killed a god, he woke early, a bitter taste in his mouth and an ache in his ear from a brawl, in a future Earth ruled by fearful god-globes, its glorious past only legend.

Robert W. Krepps's 1953 story is a colorful dystopian space opera of rebellion against strange overlords. Vivid, driven golden-age pulp. Read it for a rousing tale where a man of a subjugated far-future Earth defies the god-globes that rule the buttoned sky, in a full-blooded adventure of revolt.

In its time

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

Reading it

2 hr 23 min read (a novella, a full arc in one sitting or two).