Arthur Cheney Train & Robert Williams Wood 2 hr 16 min read

With the world-war at its height, wireless messages signed PAX declare their sender master of nature's forces, and a wandering asteroid on a collision course with Earth demands a desperate answer.

Arthur Train and Robert W. Wood's 1958 novel, sequel to 'The Man Who Rocked the Earth,' is a prophetic hard-SF and military-SF adventure. Visionary, dramatic, remarkable. Read it for a bold early tale of atomic-powered spaceflight and planetary defense, as scientists build a flying ring to meet a menace from the depths of space.

In its time

Published in 1958, during the 1950s, post-war optimism meets cold war anxiety.

Reading it

2 hr 16 min read (a novella, a full arc in one sitting or two).

Illustrated by

Jr. Frank D. McSherry