Edmond Hamilton 1 hr 3 min read

In the far future, an Interstellar Patrol ship dives through space to stop a rogue sun on a collision course with our own, the birth of galaxy-spanning space opera.

Edmond Hamilton's 1928 story launched his Interstellar Patrol and helped invent the modern space epic, sending Jan Tor and his crew hurtling to save the solar system from a wandering star. Breathless, cosmic-scale golden-age adventure. Read it for a foundational work of space opera, where the stakes are literally stellar.

In its time

Published in 1928, during the 1920s, the pulp era proper.

Reading it

1 hr 3 min read (a novelette, room for a turn or two).

Illustrated by

Hugh Rankin