Edmond Hamilton 1 hr 17 min read

Under the two hurtling moons of Mars, adventurer Lance Kenniston faces ruin, for lack of a single ship to reach the asteroid Vesta and its legendary treasure.

Edmond Hamilton's 1942 story is a rousing space-opera adventure. Vivid, driven golden-age pulp. Read it for a colorful Hamilton yarn of treasure-hunting among the asteroids, where a desperate hero, a rival gang, and the perils of the void collide, in fast-moving pulp SF from one of the era's great masters of interplanetary action.

In its time

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

Reading it

1 hr 17 min read (a novella, a full arc in one sitting or two).