Arthur Leo Zagat 44 min read

Over the bay of New York, ten flying forts anchor a fleet of a thousand one-man helicopters as Allan Dane waits in reserve for battle, in a future war for a world where sleepers have woken.

Arthur Leo Zagat's 1932 story is a rousing post-apocalyptic and military-SF adventure. Vivid, driven golden-age pulp. Read it for a colorful early-pulp yarn of aerial warfare and awakened sleepers in a transformed future America, in the fast-moving, spectacle-rich style of the classic scientifiction magazines, brimming with air-fleets and derring-do.

In its time

Published in 1932, during the 1930s, space opera soars.

Reading it

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