Alfred Coppel 33 min read

Commander Strykalski's cruiser Cleopatra is yanked from routine patrol and sent to Saturn's moon Tethys, to the secret proving grounds of Project Warp, and a weapon that could win the war.

Alfred Coppel's 1949 story is a rousing military space opera. Vivid, driven golden-age pulp. Read it for a colorful wartime-flavored yarn of a spacegoing navy, an experimental super-weapon, and a daring crew, in fast-moving pulp SF that reads like a naval adventure among the outer planets.

In its time

Published in 1949, during the 1940s, the golden age begins.

Reading it

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

Illustrated by

Herman B. Vestal