Jack Williamson 2 hr 30 min read

A man wakes from an age-long cosmic-ray sleep into a far future ruled by Malgarth, the immortal robot monster.

Jack Williamson's 1939 super-science novel pits reborn Barry Horn and the wonder-girl Dona Keradin against a machine tyrant across the gulfs of time, in the grand galactic-adventure mode of the pulp era. Vivid, headlong space opera from one of the field's most durable pioneers. Read it for full-throttle golden-age spectacle, with a robot villain and stakes as big as the cosmos.

In its time

Published in 1939, during the 1930s, space opera soars.

Reading it

2 hr 30 min read (a novel-length work, settle in).