Frederick Orlin Tremaine 1 hr 15 min read

A call goes out for seven fearless engineers to face an unknown and terrible challenge, the daring opening of a rousing scientifiction adventure.

Frederick Orlin Tremaine's 1933 story is a rousing hard-SF adventure. Vivid, driven golden-age pulp. Read it for a colorful early-1930s yarn where a band of bold engineers is recruited for a hazardous scientific mission, in the exuberant, wonder-and-peril style of the classic scientifiction magazines, from an author better known as the great editor of Astounding Stories.

In its time

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

Reading it

1 hr 15 min read (a novella, a full arc in one sitting or two).