Robert W. Krepps 1 hr 5 min read

The little noises during the TV program were two things trying to get into the narrator's house, the eerie opening of a tale of an old enemy mankind had forgotten, awaiting its vengeance.

Robert W. Krepps's (Geoff St. Reynard's) 1954 story is a tense post-apocalyptic space opera. Gripping, atmospheric golden-age SF. Read it for a suspenseful yarn where a forgotten menace from the past rises to threaten a space station and the Earth, and one man must stand against it, in a fast-moving golden-age piece of creeping dread and heroic defense.

In its time

Published in 1954, during the 1950s, post-war optimism meets cold war anxiety.

Reading it

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

Illustrated by

W. E. Terry