Jason Kirby 41 min read

Above the tawny Arabian wastes, three lawmen chase a tiny speck that has flown normally all day, until, near sunset, it suddenly takes on a terrific, unbelievable speed.

Jason Kirby's 1933 story is a rousing hard-SF adventure of a strange aerial pursuit. Vivid, driven golden-age pulp. Read it for a fast-moving desert chase where agents of three nations pursue a mysterious craft to its impossible lair, the floating island of madness, in the grand tradition of pulp super-science.

In its time

Published in 1933, during the 1930s, space opera soars.

Reading it

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