Miles J. Breuer 38 min read

Once, ace engineer Tony Costello grew rich building cars for the racketeer Scarneck Ed, but the Citizens' Committee has cleaned up the town, and Tony leans glumly over his desk, his good days gone.

Miles J. Breuer's 1932 story is an inventive alternate-history and hard-SF tale of higher-dimensional physics. Clever, imaginative golden-age pulp. Read it for a story by a thoughtful early SF craftsman, where a down-on-his-luck engineer is drawn into a scheme that tilts the very geometry of space, with dizzying results.

In its time

Published in 1932, during the 1930s, space opera soars.

Reading it

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