Jr. John W. Campbell 2 hr 3 min read

The star Mira is dying, and its people set out with a vast armada to seize a better sun, Sol, and against their world-sized ships and faster-than-light armada, Earth has no defense at all.

John W. Campbell, Jr.'s 1936 novel is a rousing hard-SF space opera by the legendary editor. Vivid, idea-driven, of its era. Read it for classic super-science from a founding shaper of the genre, an interstellar invasion, a desperate race for a war-winning weapon, and the grand cosmic scale that defined early Campbell space opera.

In its time

Published in 1936, during the 1930s, space opera soars.

Reading it

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