Murray Leinster 1 hr 19 min read

Aboard a millionaire's silent yacht, Alexander Morrison and his daughter Nita cross a calm sea, never guessing that a strange silver menace is about to threaten the whole world.

Murray Leinster's 1919 novel is a rousing hard-SF and post-apocalyptic disaster tale. Vivid, driven, of its era. Read it for an early Leinster catastrophe yarn where a mysterious silver blight spreads across the oceans and imperils civilization, in a fast pulp adventure of science and survival.

In its time

Published in 1919, during the 1910s, lost worlds and interplanetary adventure.

Reading it

1 hr 19 min read (a novella, a full arc in one sitting or two).