Edmond Hamilton 33 min read

Just as we regard fish as dwellers at the bottom of the sea, so gigantic beings from outer space may regard us, creatures at the bottom of an atmospheric ocean, worth a curious visit.

Edmond Hamilton's 1930 story is a rousing first-contact and hard-SF tale, inspired by Charles Fort. Vivid, imaginative golden-age pulp. Read it for a colorful Hamilton yarn of colossal cosmic visitors probing our little world, drawing on Fortean lore of strange skies, in the breathless, wonder-struck style that made him a master of the pulp cosmic-menace story.

In its time

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

Reading it

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

Illustrated by

Frank R. Paul