If you thrilled to John Gordon impersonating Zarth Arn and throwing himself into fleet actions against Shorr Kan’s League of Dark Worlds, you’ll love the Lensmen duels and ship-to-ship slugfests as Kimball Kinnison hunts Boskonian warlords across the galaxy. The same grand, imperial scale and daredevil sorties you enjoyed—raids on enemy strongholds, infiltrations, and planet-shaking weaponry—are all here in spades in Galactic Patrol.

You liked how John Gordon is ripped from his own era, dropped into Zarth Arn’s distant future, and must navigate strange customs and super-science. In A World Out of Time, Jerome Branch Corbell wakes centuries ahead under a new identity, hijacks a ramship, and time-skips into a radically transformed Earth. The disorientation, culture shock, and wonder you felt as Gordon learned the ways of a distant age are echoed as Corbell crosses millennia, chasing answers through a future that keeps slipping further away.

If you were hooked by Gordon’s urgent drive to foil Shorr Kan and protect Lianna while ancient superweapons loomed over the Interstellar Empire, The Legion of Space delivers that same laser-focused momentum. John Star and his ragtag comrades must rescue Aladoree and keep the ultimate weapon, AKKA, from the inhuman Medusae. Like Gordon’s race against the League of Dark Worlds, every chapter pushes the mission forward—daring rescues, betrayals, and a final stand against annihilation.

Remember how Gordon careened from capture to escape to sudden reversals as he impersonated Zarth Arn and dodged Shorr Kan’s schemes? The Stars My Destination runs just as hot. Gully Foyle’s revenge-fueled sprint—escape from a derelict, jailbreaks, audacious infiltrations, and confrontations in the halls of power—matches the headlong, pulp-speed energy that made The Star Kings such a rush.

If the vast sweep of Gordon’s war against the League of Dark Worlds—complete with lost super-science and imperial alliances—was your sweet spot, Vinge’s saga will hit hard. When a resurrected ancient power (the Blight) threatens civilizations across the spiral arm, rescue missions, refugee flights, and desperate coalitions echo the Empire-spanning clashes you loved, while strange cultures (like the Tines) recapture that sense of discovery beyond familiar stars.