Frank Belknap Long 3 hr 16 min read

Tremendous and glittering, the Space Station floats up out of the Big Dark, and Lieutenant Corriston, come to see its marvels, soon finds himself entrapped in its unsuspected terrors.

Frank Belknap Long's 1957 novel is a fast hard-SF space opera of intrigue aboard an orbital station. Vivid, suspenseful golden-age SF. Read it for a rousing tale where a deadly power has seized Earth's great artificial moon, a vanished woman, fleeced passengers, and imposters in fantastic disguise.

In its time

Published in 1957, during the 1950s, post-war optimism meets cold war anxiety.

Reading it

3 hr 16 min read (a novel-length work, settle in).