Edmond Hamilton 30 min read

When interplanetary commerce fills the spaceways, someone must protect the cargoes from natural and human dangers, and that is the job of the Earth-Guard.

Edmond Hamilton's 1930 story, prefaced by real speculation on rocket-borne interplanetary flight, follows a member of the space patrol that keeps the trade routes safe. Vivid, prophetic early space opera from a genre pioneer. Read it for a founding vision of the interplanetary lawmen who guard the commerce of tomorrow.

In its time

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

Reading it

30 min read (a novelette, room for a turn or two).

Illustrated by

Frank R. Paul