Anthony Gilmore 1 hr 43 min read

Hawk Carse himself goes to keep Judd the Kite's rendezvous with the sinister genius Ku Sui, the gray-eyed adventurer with queer bangs whose ray-gun draw and reckless maneuvers made him a legend.

Anthony Gilmore's 1932 story is a rousing space-opera adventure, a classic of the Hawk Carse saga. Vivid, fast, gloriously pulpy. Read it for one of the great early space heroes in full flight, daring rescues, disembodied brains, and the archvillain Ku Sui, in a cornerstone of golden-age space opera.

In its time

Published in 1932, during the 1930s, space opera soars.

Reading it

1 hr 43 min read (a novella, a full arc in one sitting or two).