Edmond Hamilton 1 hr 31 min read

Committing a ship, a hundred men, and his own command to a desperate gamble, a captain drives into the Dragon's Throat, a cosmic blind-alley of burning suns.

Edmond Hamilton's 1956 story sends Kirk's vessel into a treacherous stellar vortex where radar fails and Orion cruisers may lie in ambush, the stakes nothing less than the stars. Grand, kinetic military space opera from a founding master of the galactic epic. Read it for full-throttle golden-age space war from the writer they called 'World-Wrecker' Hamilton.

In its time

Published in 1956, during the 1950s, post-war optimism meets cold war anxiety.

Reading it

1 hr 31 min read (a novella, a full arc in one sitting or two).