Captain Future #16 Magic Moon

Captain Future #16

by Brett Sterling, Radio Archives

Will Murray's Pulp Classics
Captain Future eBook
#16 Winter 1944

Captain Future… the Ace of Space! Born and raised on the moon, Curt Newton survived the murder of his scientist parents to become the protector of the galaxy known as Captain Future. With his Futuremen, Grag the giant robot, Otho, the shape-shifting android and Simon Wright, the Living Brain, he patrols the solar system in the fastest space ship ever constructed, the Comet, pursuing human monsters and alien threats to Earth and her neighbor planets. The exploits of Captain Future, Wizard of Science, originally appeared in the pages of Captain Future and Startling Stories magazines back in the days before NASA’s manned space program. Captain Future returns in these vintage pulp tales, reissued for today’s readers in electronic format.

Table of Contents:

Introduction

A Complete Book-Length Scientifiction Novel
Magic Moon
by Edmond Hamilton writing as Brett Sterling
A cruel plot to seize the satellite Styx, third moon of Pluto, and enslave peaceful natives, sends Captain Future and his loyal aides out on the most dangerous adventure of their careers!

These exciting pulp adventures have been beautifully reformatted for easy reading as an eBook. Will Murray’s Pulp Classics line of eBooks are of the highest quality and feature the great Pulp Fiction stories of the 1930s-1950s.

Genres: Science Fiction

166 pages, Kindle Edition

First published January 1, 1944

About the author

pseudonym used by Edmond Hamilton

Reviews

[MR MICHAEL · Rating 5 out of 5]

Edmond Hamilton wrote this under the house name, Brett Sterling. A fast paced story about a movie being made about Captain Future and his crew. But it is a front from a greedy man who wants to plunder Pluto's moon, Styx, which is full of diamonds. Plenty of excitement as Otho is killed (?) and Joan is alone and deep underwater with a sabotaged oxygen tank with no oxygen in it. The crew are trapped on a moon with all metal on it destroyed including space ships and guns, so no escape, with hundreds of violent men attacking them and wanting them dead. Space opera at its best.

[Little Timmy · Rating 3 out of 5]

The pulp era SiFi hero, Captain Future is a more scientific version of Buck Rogers or Flash Gordon. He and his band of Futuremen are special criminal investigators for the Earth government and are similar to Doc Savage and his band of helpers. Great reads, recommended