Tarrano the Conqueror is a science fiction adventure novel by Ray Cummings, one of the pioneering figures of early American pulp science fiction. Originally serialized in the 1920s, the story pits a daring hero against the ruthlessly ambitious Tarrano, a Venusian tyrant who schemes to conquer the entire Solar System — Earth, Mars, and Venus alike — through force and cunning.
Cummings, who had worked as a personal assistant to Thomas Edison, brought an engineer’s enthusiasm for scientific speculation to his pulp fiction, helping establish many of the conventions of interplanetary adventure. The free EPUB download delivers a fast-paced slice of early science fiction at its most exuberant.