Morrison Colladay 37 min read

In 1929, astronomers note strange aberrations in the Moon's motion, the first sign of an unknown invader from space, and the catastrophe that would remake the world for the survivors who rebuilt.

Morrison Colladay's 1929 story is a sweeping hard-SF disaster tale. Vivid, cataclysmic, of its era. Read it for a grand catastrophe yarn of the Moon torn from its orbit and the devastation that follows, framed as a survivor's account for future generations, in the wonder-and-doom style of the earliest Gernsback-era scientifiction magazines.

In its time

Published in 1929, during the 1920s, the pulp era proper.

Reading it

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

Illustrated by

Frank R. Paul