Edmond Hamilton 3 hr 13 min read

The floor lurches and flings the narrator against the wall as his whole squadron of ships spins crazily in mid-space, the opening blow of an invasion by a swarm from beyond the galaxy itself.

Edmond Hamilton's 1929 novel is grand, breathless space opera of cosmic war against invaders from outside the universe. Colorful, sweeping golden-age pulp. Read it for a rousing early space epic of vast fleets and galactic battle, from a founding master of the form.

In its time

Published in 1929, during the 1920s, the pulp era proper.

Reading it

3 hr 13 min read (a novel-length work, settle in).

Illustrated by

C. C. Senf