Harry Bates 1 hr 5 min read

Deep-sea diver Ken Torrance races poleward to the aid of the trapped submarine Peary, into an icy limbo ruled by vengeful, intelligent sealmen who mean to make the invaders pay.

Harry Bates's 1933 story is a rousing hard-SF undersea adventure. Vivid, driven golden-age pulp. Read it for a colorful pulp yarn of polar peril and a hidden race beneath the Arctic ice, where a bold diver must rescue a doomed submarine crew, in the fast-moving, wonder-and-danger style of the classic scientifiction magazines.

In its time

Published in 1933, during the 1930s, space opera soars.

Reading it

1 hr 5 min read (a novelette, room for a turn or two).