From mighty Canopus, capital of the Federated Stars, to the outer fringes of our great galaxy, the Interstellar Patrol was on the watch. Rogue suns, marauding alien intelligences, man-made comets driven by their makers for the conquest of...
Standing at the controls, beside me, the silent steersman raised his hand for a moment to point forward through the pilot room's transparent wall.
"Canopus at last," he said, and I nodded. Together, and in silence, we gazed ahead.
Before...
"Spaceships in thousands, and they're attacking us! They've come from somewhere toward our galaxy — have come out of intergalactic space itself to attack our universe!"
The interstellar Patrol, that fabulous fleet manned by all the assorted...
Nearly a century before the racks of mass-market books were flooded with media tie-ins for franchises such as Star Trek, Star Wars, etc. (and ten years before E.E. "Doc" Smith created the Lensmen), Edmond Hamilton pioneered and popularized the...