Jr. John W. Campbell 4 hr 29 min read

Piracy in the skies, a lone genius's inventions, and a dying black star drifting toward the solar system, bringing an ancient alien civilization on a collision course with Earth.

John W. Campbell's 1930 fix-up novel gathers three linked Amazing Stories tales of super-science adventure. Rousing, inventive, historically vital. Read it for early Campbell, the Arcot, Wade, and Morey stories that helped define golden-age space opera, from the man who would go on to shape the entire field as an editor.

In its time

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

Reading it

4 hr 29 min read (a novel-length work, settle in).

Illustrated by

Jerome Podwil