Lord Tedric

In the far future, humanity stands on the brink of oblivion. An ancient evil has set in motion a cosmic catastrophe that will consume all of space and time, and only one narrow timeline offers salvation. Lord Tedric, a swashbuckling interstellar warrior with a gift for violence and a sharp blade, is the universe's last hope. There's just one problem: saving everything depends on a chain of events so strange, so improbable, that only the most desperate science could engineer it. E.E. "Doc" Smith wrote Lord Tedric in 1935, when pulp science fiction was inventing the genre's grandest ambitions out of pure imagination and bravado. The result is a magnificent mess, a novel that throws planets at problems, treats relativity as adventure, and asks you to suspend disbelief at the speed of light. It's ridiculous and glorious. It moves like a rocket. If you've ever wanted to read the ancestor of all those epic space operas, the one that inspired generations of writers to dream bigger, this is it.