Henry Kuttner 48 min read

In the late Twentieth Century mankind bursts into space expecting few surprises, and meets instead a strange, enigmatic death that leaps from the outer dark, killing spacemen without trace or clue.

Henry Kuttner's 1942 novel is a rousing, atmospheric space opera. Vivid, driven golden-age pulp. Read it for a colorful Kuttner adventure of the early spaceways menaced by an unseen, inexplicable horror, where the void proves far stranger and deadlier than anyone imagined, in the breathless, wonder-and-dread style of the classic pulps.

In its time

Published in 1942, during the 1940s, the golden age begins.

Reading it

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

Illustrated by

Alexander Leydenfrost