Robert W. Krepps 1 hr 49 min read

'There's no water, no air, no gravity worth mentioning, and still there's life on that silly-looking little apple. There's somebody sitting on it!' The life-scanner, Pink insists, is never wrong.

Robert W. Krepps's 1954 story is a rousing first-contact and adventure tale of an impossible discovery. Vivid, driven golden-age SF. Read it for a colorful space-exploration yarn where Earthmen find life where none should exist, on a barren asteroid, and are drawn toward the giants of the title.

In its time

Published in 1954, during the 1950s, post-war optimism meets cold war anxiety.

Reading it

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