Taylor H. Greenfield 13 min read

With the most severe winter in generations and the Mississippi itself barely staying an Oriental invasion, only Dr. Rutledge's strange discovery of foreign proteins can free America from the menace.

Taylor H. Greenfield's 1931 story is a lurid hard-SF and military-SF invasion tale of its era. Vivid, pulpy, dated. Read it for a period 'yellow peril' super-science yarn where a wonder-weapon of light and biology turns the tide of a future war, a colorful, if now uncomfortable, artifact of early-1930s pulp invasion fiction.

In its time

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

Reading it

13 min read (a short story, a single idea, delivered and gone).