Charles Willard Diffin 2 hr 2 min read

Before a silent hall and a watching world, the venerable President of the Federation Aeronautique rises to speak the memorable words the Stratosphere Control Board has gathered to hear.

Charles Willard Diffin's 1932 story is a rousing space-opera adventure of exploration and peril. Vivid, driven golden-age pulp. Read it for a colorful pulp yarn where a grave announcement launches a perilous quest, and the search for the lost Haldgren carries its heroes into danger among strange and deadly worlds.

In its time

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

Reading it

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