Edmond Hamilton 40 min read

'The ship's fuel-tanks are empty, and we're drifting toward the dead-area,' Captain Crain tells his crew, and the wrecked freighter Pallas floats helplessly toward the graveyard of space.

Edmond Hamilton's 1931 story is a rousing, atmospheric space-opera adventure. Vivid, driven golden-age pulp. Read it for a classic of the pulp era, a fuel-less ship drawn into a vast drifting graveyard of derelict vessels, and the desperate struggle of its crew to escape the Sargasso of space.

In its time

Published in 1931, during the 1930s, space opera soars.

Reading it

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