Edmond Hamilton 32 min read

A strange new property in the rays of the sun, or their absence, threatens to hurl humanity backward down the ladder of evolution, in a tale of cosmic peril and world atavism.

Edmond Hamilton's 1930 story is a rousing hard-SF and post-apocalyptic tale. Vivid, imaginative golden-age pulp. Read it for a colorful Hamilton yarn built on the era's fascination with the mysterious powers of the sun's rays, where a cosmic change threatens to revert the whole human race to savagery, in the wonder-and-doom style of the classic scientifiction magazines.

In its time

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

Reading it

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

Illustrated by

Frank R. Paul