Edmond Hamilton 48 min read

On the bridge of an interstellar cruiser flashing past Alpha Centauri, the commander of the Interstellar Patrol races to meet a menace that threatens to steal a star from the galaxy itself.

Edmond Hamilton's 1929 story is a grand Interstellar Patrol space opera. Vast, driven, hugely influential. Read it for classic cosmic-scale Hamilton, a galaxy-spanning patrol, faster-than-light cruisers, and a threat to the very stars, in the sweeping super-science style that made his Interstellar Patrol the template for all later space opera.

In its time

Published in 1929, during the 1920s, the pulp era proper.

Reading it

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

Illustrated by

Hugh Rankin