The solar system needs a hero and it's about to get one in an old-fashioned pulp adventure with modern sensibility It was an age of miracles. It was an era of wonder. It was a time of troubles. It was all these things and more . . . except there were no heroes. Naturally, one had to be created. Curt Newton has spent most of his life hidden from the rest of humankind, being raised by a robot, an android, and the disembodied brain of a renowned scientist. This unlikely trio of guardians has kept his existence a closely guarded secret since the murder of Curt's parents. Curt's innate curiosity and nose for trouble inadvertently lead him into a plot to destabilize the Solar Coalition and assassinate the president. There's only one way to uncover the evil mastermind—Curt must become Captain Future. With the permission of the Edmond Hamilton estate, Allen Steele revives the exciting adventures of Captain Future.

CAPTAIN FUTURE, THE GREATEST HERO OF SCIENCE FICTION’S PULP ERA, RETURNS IN A NEW STORY BY HUGO AND HEINLEIN AWARD WINNING AUTHOR ALLEN STEELE!Curt Newton and his crew of interplanetary troubleshooters, the Futuremen, respond to an emergency aboard a giant orbital colony above Venus … the very place where Curt, as a lonely teenage boy, met and fell in love with the first girl he ever met.Ashi Lanyr was a thief, but the most precious thing she ever stole was young Curt’s heart. Curt never forgot her, not even after he grew up to become Captain Future, the protector of justice in the 24th century. Yet the past can return in unexpected ways, and even a hero isn’t immune to memories of his first great love.SWASHBUCKLING ACTION, PERILOUS ADVENTURE, AND A LADY TO DIE FOR … ALL IN THE RETURN OF A SPACE LEGEND!

At the edge of the Solar System, CAPTAIN FUTURE and the Futuremen discover a plot of interstellar proportions as they confront THE GUNS OF PLUTO. “Cold Hell” was what they called the Sputnik Planitia Penal Colony on the toughest, deadliest penitentiary in all of space, a lock-up so remote and forbidding that it was built within an immense iceberg and is guarded by a race of cannibals. Considered escape-proof, Cold Hell was where the worst of the worst were sent, never to be dealt with again…until now. The mysterious Black Pirate has returned, in one swift move blowing open the cell block doors and taking hostages. He’s made demands for the liberation of his hostages, demands only one man can Curt Newton, the adventurer known as Captain Future. Yet, as Curt and his strange crew race across the solar system, are they unwittingly entering a cunning trap laid for them by an old enemy?Strap in for the second installment of an epic space adventure by multiple Hugo Award-winning author ALLEN STEELE as he reinvents one of the classic Golden Age heroes of science fiction, Edmond Hamilton’s CAPTAIN FUTURE.

From the dawn of the Space Age comes an unexpected visitor … and a new challenge for CAPTAIN FUTURE and the Futuremen as they confront the enigma of the LOST APOLLO! The spacecraft that has emerged from a cosmic rift between Earth and the Moon looks like something from a museum, yet history has no record of either an Apollo 20 lunar mission or the three NASA astronauts who are aboard the archaic vessel. Have they travelled here from a parallel universe? And if so, then how and why? Curt Newton and his heroic team intercepts the 20 th century space vessel and offers sanctuary to its baffled crew. Together with an old foe, they seek to return the stranded astronauts to their own timeline. And it’s there that they encounter a menace that threatens not only the two universes but many others as well, as Captain Future searches for a way to bring home the LOST APOLLO. Classic space adventures featuring the greatest space hero of science fiction’s Golden Age continue with a NEW storyline that begins here! a long-lost interview with Space Opera masters EDMOND HAMILTON and LEIGH BRACKETT! “The right way to revamp classic pulp characters.” — The Pulp Super-Fan