George O. Smith ~6 hr read

Leaving Sahara Base, Terran Space Patrol officer Guy Maynard walks straight into trouble, a Martian's gun aimed dead-center at his stomach, in the most restricted area on all of Earth.

George O. Smith's 1944 story is a fast military space opera of patrol officers and interplanetary intrigue. Vivid, kinetic golden-age SF. Read it for a rousing tale that opens with a gun in a guarded base and sweeps its hero into far-ranging adventure among the worlds.

In its time

Published in 1944, during the 1940s, the golden age begins.

Reading it

~6 hr read (a novel-length work, settle in).

Illustrated by

Paul Orban