A review by kgagne
The Tenth Planet by Brett Sterling

3.0

I haven't read other Captain Future books or any pulp science fiction from the 1940s before this one. I didn't know what to expect from that era, and I was pleasantly surprised to find so many concepts familiar from modern space adventures, such as shields and tractor beams. There are still convenient contrivances — oh, your atom-pistol didn't work because I'm wearing an invisible atom shield! — but whether or not the science is founded, it's really no different from the technobabble of today's Star Trek. The story itself is nothing special, but it was a still an interesting historical read.