
War-Lords of the Moon
Earth’s first interplanetary fleet slips away from the cradle of gravity, its flagship a sleek, powerful rocket commanded by veteran pilot Bruce Ross. After a fragile truce with the enigmatic Moon peoples, Ross now leads eight ships in a tight formation toward the silver globe, each crew alert for the unknown. When a sudden loss of contact isolates one vessel and the star‑field above begins to behave erratically, the commander’s confidence turns to uneasy curiosity.
Back on the bridge, navigator Harrell Moore watches the instruments flare and the communications array sputter, while a nervous signal officer scrambles to restore the dead ray‑type. The crew’s banter and disciplined routine give way to a growing sense that something far larger than a simple technical glitch is at work—perhaps a hidden weapon or a mind‑bending force hidden in the moon’s shadow. Listeners are drawn into a tense, classic pulp‑style space adventure where bravery, quick thinking, and the mystery of the stars collide.
Language
en
Duration
~52 minutes (50K characters)
Publisher of text edition
Project Gutenberg
Credits
Produced by Greg Weeks, Mary Meehan and the Online Distributed Proofreading Team at http://www.pgdp.net
Release date
Mar 25, 2020
Rights
Public domain in the USA.

A pulp-era science fiction writer active in the late 1930s, he is best remembered for fast-moving space adventures like War-Lords of the Moon. He also published under the name Morton Taney, adding another thread to his small but intriguing place in early genre fiction.
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