Frank Belknap Long 30 min read

Reckless, wonder-struck Joan drags her sober husband Richard out into space for the sixth time, bound, at last, for a deadly encounter with the vibration wasps of a distant, hostile world.

Frank Belknap Long's 1941 story is a rousing horror-tinged space opera. Vivid, driven golden-age pulp. Read it for a colorful pulp adventure of a mismatched couple braving cosmic dangers, where an exploring wife's insatiable daring leads to a terrifying alien menace, in a lively, atmospheric tale of peril among the planets.

In its time

Published in 1941, during the 1940s, the golden age begins.

Reading it

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

Illustrated by

John R. Forte