Ray Cummings 4 hr 56 min read

In 1990 a string of mysterious sea disasters begins, ships lost, strange ocean changes, presaging the mightiest threat ever made against mankind's world, and a girl who may be a siren.

Ray Cummings's 1929 novel is a rousing horror-tinged post-apocalyptic adventure. Vivid, driven golden-age pulp. Read it for a colorful Argosy serial of oceanic catastrophe and a mysterious sea-girl, where the deeps rise against humanity, in the breathless, wonder-filled, romance-laced style of a founding master of the pulp adventure.

In its time

Published in 1929, during the 1920s, the pulp era proper.

Reading it

4 hr 56 min read (a novel-length work, settle in).

Illustrated by

Robert A. Graef