Sick with fever in the Guadalcanal bush, the scientist Bassett follows the sound of a vast peal to a sphere worshipped by headhunters, and suspects it has come from beyond the solar system. Three more stories follow, including one about an old man setting out for the Klondike, in a collection published in 1918.
Some of London’s last stories, with a title tale that anticipates later science fiction. Download the free EPUB.