Murray Leinster 1 hr 17 min read

In all his twenty years, it has never occurred to Burl to wonder what his grandfather thought of the world, a world of monstrous insects and giant fungi, where humans are tiny, hunted things.

Murray Leinster's 1920 story is a landmark early tale of a far-future Earth ruled by giant insects. Vivid, imaginative, hugely influential. Read it for a foundational post-apocalyptic adventure, humanity reduced to fearful savages amid towering mushrooms and monstrous bugs, in the classic that launched the beloved Burl saga.

In its time

Published in 1920, during the 1920s, the pulp era proper.

Reading it

1 hr 17 min read (a novella, a full arc in one sitting or two).