Anthony Gilmore 53 min read

Had the historian John Sewell not recorded him, Hawk Carse, creator of space-frontiers, molder of history through his feud with Ku Sui, would have passed into oblivion.

Anthony Gilmore's 1932 story continues the celebrated Hawk Carse space-opera saga. Vivid, fast, gloriously pulpy. Read it for more of one of early SF's great heroes, daring bluffs, ray-gun duels, and the ongoing war with the archvillain Ku Sui, in a cornerstone of golden-age space adventure.

In its time

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

Reading it

53 min read (a novelette, room for a turn or two).