Stanton A. Coblentz 1 hr 49 min read

In a great laboratory, the saturnine Philip Dunbar needles his colleague Ronald Gates over a long-sought discovery, the prelude to a perilous adventure among strange crystal worlds.

Stanton A. Coblentz's 1942 story is a rousing first-contact space opera. Vivid, imaginative golden-age pulp. Read it for a colorful pulp yarn of scientific discovery leading to wonder and danger among crystalline planetoids, from a prolific golden-age author known for blending adventure with a satirical, speculative imagination.

In its time

Published in 1942, during the 1940s, the golden age begins.

Reading it

1 hr 49 min read (a novella, a full arc in one sitting or two).

Illustrated by

Ned Hadley