A commander of the Interstellar Patrol, cruising past Alpha Centauri at eighty times the speed of light, is sent to investigate a dead star hurtling toward the solar system. What his crew find there — swarms of black cone-shaped craft above shining cities — turns a scouting mission into a fight for Earth’s sun, in a story from Weird Tales of 1929.
Pure, extravagant space opera from the writer nicknamed World-Wrecker Hamilton. Download the free EPUB.