E. E. Smith 32 min read

When cosmic-energy vortices tear loose and blaze uncontrollably across the worlds, killing all who approach, one man, 'Storm' Cloud, discovers he alone has the reflexes to snuff them out.

E. E. 'Doc' Smith's 1941 novel launches the Vortex Blaster series in his beloved Lensman universe. Rollicking, epic, gloriously super-scientific. Read it for classic Doc Smith adventure, a grief-stricken mathematical genius turned interplanetary troubleshooter, blasting deadly atomic vortices across the galaxy, in a rousing spin-off of the era's grandest space opera.

In its time

Published in 1941, during the 1940s, the golden age begins.

Reading it

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

Illustrated by

John R. Forte