John Wiggin 1 hr 24 min read

On a crisp winter morning in the city of Copia, a lone flier circles down toward the great wheel-spoked capital of a strange world.

John Wiggin's 1939 story opens on the ordered, gleaming metropolis of Copia, setting up a lost-world adventure among the cave-dwellers of Saturn. Colorful, imaginative 1930s planetary pulp. Read it for vintage golden-age space opera with a strong sense of an alien civilization and hidden depths.

In its time

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

Reading it

1 hr 24 min read (a novella, a full arc in one sitting or two).