Largely forgotten today, James H. Hill’s “From Outer Space” and “The Orbit of Doom” (1955) encapsulate the growing fears of technological warfare and innovation running rampant in the mid-twentieth century. Serials of warning, these connected stories of flying saucers, espionage, and alien civilizations are as thrilling as they are prescient. Also included in this collection are stories of Jacques Lenglet, a daring Senegalese fighter pilot, and Jiggs Bennett, a savvy New York reporter whose beat always serves to fight injustice. Together, these stories, originally published in the Baltimore Afro-American, showcase Hill as a prolific and forgotten stylist of the pulp tradition.
