Ray Cummings ~5 hr read

Aboard the space-flyer Planetara, running mail and passengers between Venus and Mars, a detective uncovers a plot to seize a fortune in moon-treasure.

Ray Cummings's 1931 novel is classic early space opera, sending 'Gregg Haljan' and 'Snap' Dean into piracy, intrigue, and peril across the interplanetary spaceways of 2070. Fast, colorful, foundational pulp adventure. Read it for headlong golden-age SF from a pioneer who helped set the template for the whole genre.

In its time

Published in 1931, during the 1930s, space opera soars.

Reading it

~5 hr read (a novel-length work, settle in).