Gardner F. Fox 1 hr 30 min read

Since before the birth of the cosmos, the Rebel has fought Time and Space, and now its tendrils touch reality in a purple light that floods an old house, tilting the mansion as it comes.

Gardner F. Fox's 1947 story is a rousing, cosmic-scaled AI-and-space-opera tale. Vivid, imaginative golden-age pulp. Read it for a colorful pulp yarn of an ancient cosmic evil older than creation reaching into the world of men, blending grand metaphysical scope with fast-moving adventure, in the wonder-and-menace style of the classic space-opera magazines.

In its time

Published in 1947, during the 1940s, the golden age begins.

Reading it

1 hr 30 min read (a novella, a full arc in one sitting or two).

Illustrated by

Vincent Napoli