Master Race

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Master Race

by Richard Ashby

EN·~22 minutes·1 chapter

Chapters

1 total
1

22:44

Description

A quiet night on a rural farm turns unsettling when teenage Eddie hears a low, humming vibration that doesn’t belong to any tractor or radio. The glow of strange, patterned lights flickers over the oak that houses his secret tree‑house, and his loyal Scottie, Rags, reacts with nervous barks. Driven by curiosity and a sense of adventure, Eddie sneaks out in his pajamas, rifle in hand, to investigate the source of the illumination.

The early chapters follow Eddie as he follows the mysterious glow through moonlit fields, confronting the tension between ordinary country life and an uncanny, otherworldly presence. Along the way, he pieces together clues that hint at a hidden observer—a scout from beyond Earth—while trying to keep his secret hideaway from prying eyes. Listeners are pulled into a tense, atmospheric blend of 1950s pulp sci‑fi and coming‑of‑age suspense, setting the stage for an encounter that could rewrite humanity’s understanding of who, or what, watches from the sky.

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Language

en

Duration

~22 minutes (21K characters)

Publisher of text edition

Project Gutenberg

Credits

Greg Weeks, Mary Meehan and the Online Distributed Proofreading Team at http://www.pgdp.net

Release date

2021-05-03

Rights

Public domain in the USA.

About the author

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Richard Ashby

Best known in science fiction circles for a small body of mid-20th-century work, this author published stories in magazine venues rather than building a large public profile. Reliable biographical details are scarce, which gives the work an old-pulp mystery of its own.

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