E. E. Smith 38 min read

Once an ordinary man, Doctor Neal 'Storm' Cloud now hunts the deadly atomic vortices that blaze across the worlds, and this time the Vortex Blaster carries his war to a hidden enemy.

E. E. 'Doc' Smith's 1942 novel continues the Vortex Blaster series in his beloved Lensman universe. Rollicking, epic, super-scientific. Read it for more headlong Doc Smith adventure, his grief-forged troubleshooter blasting cosmic vortices and battling interstellar crime, in a rousing entry of the era's grandest space-opera saga.

In its time

Published in 1942, during the 1940s, the golden age begins.

Reading it

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