Fletcher Pratt 4 hr 17 min read

Creatures from the stars, driven by fear and the will to conquer, descend upon an Earth transformed, and humanity, changed in ways it never expected, must rally against the onslaught from Rigel.

Fletcher Pratt's 1932 novel is a rousing first-contact and post-apocalyptic space opera. Vivid, imaginative golden-age SF. Read it for a colorful early-SF epic of interstellar invasion and a strangely altered humanity fighting back, from a versatile master, expanding on the notion that life itself came from the stars.

In its time

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

Reading it

4 hr 17 min read (a novel-length work, settle in).