Anthony Gilmore 1 hr 20 min read

Hawk Carse came to the frontier of space when Saturn was the frontier planet, years before the Patrol brought law and order, and his slender figure hid the deadliest adventurer in the void.

'Anthony Gilmore's' 1931 story launches the classic Hawk Carse space-opera saga, a swashbuckling pulp series of interplanetary derring-do. Colorful, fast, foundational golden-age SF. Read it for a cornerstone of early space adventure, introducing one of the pulps' great two-fisted heroes.

In its time

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

Reading it

1 hr 20 min read (a novella, a full arc in one sitting or two).