Ray Cummings 4 hr 27 min read

The year is 2430, farther beyond us than we are beyond Columbus, a tale meant to plunge you forward into that future, dedicated to Hugo Gernsback, champion of scientific fiction.

Ray Cummings's 1930 novel is a rousing dystopian space opera of a would-be conqueror of the worlds. Vivid, imaginative golden-age SF. Read it for classic Cummings, a sweeping future of interplanetary intrigue and adventure, as the ruthless Tarrano bids to seize dominion over Earth, Venus, and Mars.

In its time

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

Reading it

4 hr 27 min read (a novel-length work, settle in).