Marion Zimmer Bradley 3 hr 10 min read

For a week young Bart Steele has stayed in his cabin aboard the Lhari starship, dreading the cold-sleep that the alien monopolists impose on human passengers who must not see the secret of the stars.

Marion Zimmer Bradley's 1963 juvenile novel is a brisk, engaging space opera of interstellar intrigue. Fast, imaginative golden-age SF. Read it for a rousing young-adult adventure where a human youth infiltrates the secretive alien race that hoards the faster-than-light drive, to win the stars for humanity.

In its time

Published in 1963, during the 1960s, new wave revolutionizes the genre.

Reading it

3 hr 10 min read (a novel-length work, settle in).