E. E. Smith ~5 hr read

When the space liner Arcturus is wrecked far from any help, a resourceful engineer and a plucky girl must survive on the moons of Jupiter, and build their way home from scratch.

E.E. Smith's 1931 novel is a rousing hard-SF space opera, celebrated for its rigorous scientific detail. Thrilling, ingenious, gloriously inventive. Read it for classic Doc Smith with the engineering dialed up, castaways on Ganymede, alien races, and super-science improvised against impossible odds.

In its time

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

Reading it

~5 hr read (a novel-length work, settle in).