Jr. John W. Campbell 37 min read

When the Sun itself begins to fail, humanity must reach across the inconceivable gulfs between the stars for survival, a captivating romance woven from the world of ultra-physics.

John W. Campbell, Jr.'s 1930 story is a rousing hard-SF space opera by the legendary editor. Vast, idea-driven, of its era. Read it for grand early Campbell super-science, a dying sun, a desperate reach for the stars, and the subatomic wonders of ultra-physics, in the sweeping cosmic style that made his early space opera a lasting influence on the genre.

In its time

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

Reading it

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

Illustrated by

Hans Waldemar Wessolowski