Linton Davies 42 min read

As his rocket-ship fleet sheds the Earth's pull and speeds moonward in echelon, Flight-Commander Bruce Ross squints through the telescope at the swelling lunar bulk, and the war awaiting him there.

Linton Davies's 1939 story is a rousing military space opera. Vivid, driven golden-age pulp. Read it for a colorful pulp adventure of a rocket fleet's assault on the Moon and the war-lords who rule it, brimming with space-navy spectacle and derring-do, in the wonder-and-action style of the classic space-adventure magazines.

In its time

Published in 1939, during the 1930s, space opera soars.

Reading it

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