Murray Leinster 1 hr 43 min read

Following a secret route to romance and high adventure, young Cunningham journeys to a remote New Hampshire backwater called Coulters, where he will find far stranger people than he bargained for.

Murray Leinster's 1928 story is a rousing adventure and space-opera tale. Vivid, imaginative golden-age pulp. Read it for an early Leinster yarn where a quest for adventure in the New England backwoods opens onto genuine strangeness and wonder, in the fast-moving, inventive style of a writer who helped shape the pulp science-fiction adventure.

In its time

Published in 1928, during the 1920s, the pulp era proper.

Reading it

1 hr 43 min read (a novella, a full arc in one sitting or two).

Illustrated by

Hugh Rankin