New Wildside Press freebie for this Tuesday:
The Silver Menace by the late Murray Leinster (
ISFDB,
Wikipedia), a vintage early science fiction alien encounter novel with horror-ish elements.
A classic early science fiction short novel by Murray Leinster—a tale of global doom—originally published in the pulp magazine "The Thrill Book" as a 2-part serial in 1919!
At last the government could keep silence no longer, and the world was informed of the true malignity of the Silver Menace. The silvery jelly had reached the American coasts, invaded and conquered the harbors, and was even then rapidly solidifying the rivers, but its threat did not end there.
Just as it had crept up the sides of Gerrod's test tubes, and as it had overwhelmed the yacht, now it crept up the beaches. Slowly and inexorably die slimy masses of jelly crept above the water line. The beaches were buried below thick blankets of sticky, shimmering animalcules and still the menace grew.
They overwhelmed all obstacles placed in their path. The whole green, fertile earth was threatened with burial beneath a mantle of slimy, silvery, glistening horror!
Also, a reminder that the
Humble Book Bundle Prime Sci-Fantasy, chock full of anthologies and story collections (and a cookbook! containing instructions on "To Serve Elf") with contributions by notable award-nominated authors in the genre, ends tomorrow at 11 AM Pacific Time on Wednesday.