Edmond Hamilton 1 hr 37 min read

A man gunning his plane through the night over the dark deserts, a fugitive from the law, is racing toward a fate more fantastic than any prison.

Edmond Hamilton's 1956 story sets Price on a lightless, lawless flight across California and Nevada, unaware of the extraordinary destiny hurtling toward him. Fast, vivid military space opera from a master of the galactic adventure. Read it for headlong golden-age SF that starts as a manhunt and opens onto the stars.

In its time

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

Reading it

1 hr 37 min read (a novella, a full arc in one sitting or two).