Bill Garson 50 min read

Space shot through with far-off suns, the dark side of the Moon looming, and then hundreds of flickering fireflies moving out of the black. 'Curiosity did it,' Curt Wing says.

Bill Garson's 1946 story is a rousing first-contact and post-apocalyptic space opera. Vivid, driven golden-age pulp. Read it for a colorful pulp adventure where Earth's defenders lure a hidden enemy out of the dark near the Moon, in a tense tale of interplanetary war and the shadow-gods behind it.

In its time

Published in 1946, during the 1940s, the golden age begins.

Reading it

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

Illustrated by

H. W. Kiemle