Edmond Hamilton 46 min read

Out beyond the edge of the galaxy, past white Rigel and red Betelgeuse, a Patrol commander masses his cruisers against a menace that hurls comets themselves as weapons of war.

Edmond Hamilton's 1930 story is a rousing interstellar space opera, an Interstellar Patrol tale. Vast, driven golden-age pulp. Read it for grand-scale Hamilton super-science, a galaxy-spanning war fought with worlds and comets, in the breathless cosmic sweep that made his Interstellar Patrol stories the model for all later space opera.

In its time

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

Reading it

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

Illustrated by

Hugh Rankin