H. L. Nichols 21 min read

After the World War, the War of the Rockets, the World Revolution, and at last the Peace of Fear, cities rise again on a blood-soaked Earth, where the vibrations of old hate still linger and wait.

H. L. Nichols's 1941 story is a somber military-SF and post-apocalyptic tale. Sweeping, brooding golden-age pulp. Read it for a colorful yarn of a future scarred by endless war and an uneasy peace, where the accumulated hatred of lost generations finds a strange and terrible revenge, in the grand catastrophe-and-recovery style of the classic pulp magazines.

In its time

Published in 1941, during the 1940s, the golden age begins.

Reading it

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

Illustrated by

Michael Mirando