Anthony Gilmore 2 hr 22 min read

A screaming streak in the night, a cloud of billowing steam, the climax of Hawk Carse's 'Affair of the Brains', and now the gray-eyed adventurer moves against the sinister genius Ku Sui once more.

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 raids, disembodied brains, and the long-awaited reckoning with the archvillain Ku Sui, in a cornerstone of golden-age space opera.

In its time

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

Reading it

2 hr 22 min read (a novella, a full arc in one sitting or two).