Ray Cummings 3 hr 26 min read

A little world one-fifth the mass of the Moon comes hurtling toward the Solar System, a planet-sized invader, Wandl, bent on conquest, as Gregg Haljan and his friends brace for cosmic war.

Ray Cummings's 1932 novel is a rousing first-contact space opera. Vivid, driven golden-age pulp. Read it for a colorful Astounding-era adventure of a rogue planet turned weapon of invasion, and the interplanetary heroes who fight to save the worlds, in the breathless, wonder-and-peril style of a founding master of the pulp space opera.

In its time

Published in 1932, during the 1930s, space opera soars.

Reading it

3 hr 26 min read (a novel-length work, settle in).