C. C. MacApp 30 min read

Shaking with fury after the Council of Four refuses to heed him, the Space Admiral of Sennech knows the old rules no longer hold, a fighter must now think for himself if his people are to live.

C. C. MacApp's 1963 story is a rousing military-SF space opera. Vivid, gripping golden-age SF. Read it for a fast-moving tale of a proud admiral defying a hidebound command to save his people, blending interstellar warfare with hard choices of loyalty and survival, in the colorful, action-driven style of golden-age military SF.

In its time

Published in 1963, during the 1960s, new wave revolutionizes the genre.

Reading it

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