Paul Ernst 32 min read

Arvania has stolen the Ziegler plans, and within three months will declare war and destroy the nation, unless the stolen formulae can be recovered from the guarded Arvanian Embassy.

Paul Ernst's 1932 story is a rousing hard-SF spy-adventure. Vivid, driven golden-age pulp. Read it for a colorful pulp thriller where a desperate mission to recover world-shaking secrets from an enemy embassy turns on a marvelous invention, the radiant shell that can render a man invisible.

In its time

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

Reading it

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