Raymond Z. Gallun 1 hr 44 min read

The Star Men are no impossible monstrosities, the editor insists, for insects, armored on the outside, might one day survive the void of space itself, as these strange space-dwelling creatures do.

Raymond Z. Gallun's 1932 story is a colorful first-contact space opera of insectoid aliens. Vivid, imaginative golden-age pulp. Read it for a rousing early tale of space-dwelling insect-men, convincingly imagined, and the revolt that pits them against humanity in the great gulf beyond the Earth.

In its time

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

Reading it

1 hr 44 min read (a novella, a full arc in one sitting or two).