S. P. Meek 44 min read

Before a hushed and fearful crowd at the Capitol, the President warns the nation of a strange and growing danger, a menace threatening to wrench the very Earth from its course.

S. P. Meek's 1931 story is a rousing hard-SF disaster and adventure tale. Vivid, driven golden-age pulp. Read it for a colorful Depression-era yarn of scientific catastrophe and heroism, where a bizarre threat to the planet itself must be met with courage and clever science, in the grand pulp tradition.

In its time

Published in 1931, during the 1930s, space opera soars.

Reading it

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