Roman Frederick Starzl 2 hr 3 min read

Sime Hemingway of the Interplanetary Federal Police does not sleep well his first night on Mars, and soon strikes at the hidden interests lashing the war feeling ever higher between Earth and Mars.

Roman Frederick Starzl's 1932 story is a rousing dystopian space opera of interplanetary intrigue. Vivid, driven golden-age pulp. Read it for a colorful pulp adventure where a lone agent battles a hidden Martian conspiracy bent on war, amid tyranny, torture, and the flight of a princess.

In its time

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

Reading it

2 hr 3 min read (a novella, a full arc in one sitting or two).