Leslie F. Stone 23 min read

The dying Earth lies wrapped in gathering dark, her Moon already lost, as the Sun itself, after billions of years, at last begins to burn out, dooming the planets to everlasting cold.

Leslie F. Stone's 1929 story is a sweeping hard-SF and post-apocalyptic tale by an early woman of the genre. Vivid, cosmic, of its era. Read it for a grand catastrophe yarn of the Sun's death and humanity's desperate response, from one of science fiction's pioneering female writers, in the wonder-and-doom style of the earliest Gernsback-era scientifiction.

In its time

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

Reading it

23 min read (a short story, a single idea, delivered and gone).

Illustrated by

Frank R. Paul