Murray Leinster 1 hr 27 min read

Trying to start his car one early morning in a rugged Greek mountain village, Coburn jerks upright at a shrill yell, a whiskered villager pounding up the street, eyes panic-stricken.

Murray Leinster's 1957 novel is a rousing, swashbuckling first-contact adventure. Vivid, fast-paced, gripping. Read it for an epic-scale tale from a master storyteller, vivid characters and a weird mystery unfolding from a Greek village into a globe-spanning struggle against invaders whose nature is stranger than anyone imagines.

In its time

Published in 1957, during the 1950s, post-war optimism meets cold war anxiety.

Reading it

1 hr 27 min read (a novella, a full arc in one sitting or two).