Andre Norton 1 hr 7 min read

Six months after the Peace of Shanghai ends the great war, a jobless young flyer sits despairing on a New York park bench, until a stranger offers him a way through the blue haze to a hidden world.

Andre Norton's 1947 story, her first published SF, is a rousing lost-world adventure. Vivid, imaginative, historically notable. Read it for the debut of a beloved master, a broken veteran drawn into a strange realm within a polar crater, and a sweeping tale of wonder that launched a legendary career.

In its time

Published in 1947, during the 1940s, the golden age begins.

Reading it

1 hr 7 min read (a novelette, room for a turn or two).

Illustrated by

Neil Austin