Ray Cummings 2 hr 20 min read

A terrified boy swears he's seen a ghost on the north shore, all white and shining, and when Don and Bob investigate, they find the first of the white invaders from another dimension.

Ray Cummings's 1931 novel is a rousing first-contact and horror-tinged adventure. Vivid, driven golden-age pulp. Read it for a colorful pulp yarn of eerie glowing intruders crossing into our world from a fourth-dimensional realm, and the young men who battle them, in a fast-moving tale of interdimensional invasion from a genre pioneer.

In its time

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

Reading it

2 hr 20 min read (a novella, a full arc in one sitting or two).