Monroe K. Ruch 40 min read

When interplanetary travel comes and the Moon's pull on Earth grows dangerous, Professor Erickson and his crew undertake an amazing mission to master the forces that bind the two worlds.

Monroe K. Ruch's 1932 story is an imaginative hard-SF space opera of cosmic engineering. Inventive, ambitious golden-age pulp. Read it for a big-idea pulp yarn where scientists set out to reshape the very relationship of Earth and Moon, in an early vision of humanity meddling with the mechanics of the heavens.

In its time

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

Reading it

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

Illustrated by

Frank R. Paul