Gardner F. Fox 1 hr 24 min read

For unremembered eons the Thing called Noorlythin has slept, dwindling to a faint legend in mankind's race-memory, but now the time has come for men and robots to worship it once again.

Gardner F. Fox's 1953 story is an atmospheric fantasy-tinged space opera. Vivid, imaginative golden-age pulp. Read it for a colorful Planet Stories yarn of an ancient cosmic evil reawakening in a far-future world of men and machines, and the hero who must stand against its dark resurrection, in sword-and-planet style.

In its time

Published in 1953, during the 1950s, post-war optimism meets cold war anxiety.

Reading it

1 hr 24 min read (a novella, a full arc in one sitting or two).