E.E. 'Doc' Smith SF Gateway Omnibus: The Skylark of Space, Skylark Three, Skylark of Valeron, Skylark DuQuesne (128 page)

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5. Appointment at Bloodstar
(aka
The Bloodstar Conspiracy
) (1978)

6. The Purity Plot
(1978)

7. Planet of Treachery
(1981)

8. Eclipsing Binaries
(1983)

9. The Omicron Invasion
(1984)

10. Revolt of the Galaxy
(1985)

Lord Tedric (with Gordon Eklund)

1. Lord Tedric
(1978)

2. The Space Pirates
(1979)

3. Black Knight of the Iron Sphere
(1979)

4. Alien Realms
(1980)

Non-series novels and collections

1. Spacehounds of IPC
(1947)

2. The Galaxy Primes
(1965)

3. Masters of Space
(1976) (with E. Everett Evans)

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About the Author

E.E. ‘Doc’ Smith (1890–1965)

Edward Elmer Smith was born in Wisconsin in 1890. He attended the University of Idaho and graduated with degrees in chemical engineering; he went on to attain a PhD in the same subject, and spent his working life as a food engineer. Smith is best known for the ‘Skylark’ and ‘Lensman’ series of novels, which are arguably the earliest examples of what a modern audience would recognise as Space Opera. Early novels in both series were serialised in the dominant pulp magazines of the day:
Argosy
,
Amazing Stories
,
Wonder Stories
and a pre-Campbell
Astounding
, although his most successful works were published under Campbell’s editorship. Although he won no major SF awards, Smith was Guest of Honour at the second World Science Fiction Convention in Chicago, in 1940. He died in 1965.

Copyright

A Gollancz eBook

Copyright © The Estate of E.E. ‘Doc’ Smith 2013

The Skylark of Space
copyright © The Estate of E.E. ‘Doc’ Smith 1928

Skylark Three
copyright © The Estate of E.E. ‘Doc’ Smith 1948

Skylark of Valeron
copyright © The Estate of E.E. ‘Doc’ Smith 1949

Skylark DuQuesne
copyright © The Estate of E.E. ‘Doc’ Smith 1966

Introduction copyright © SFE Ltd 2013

All rights reserved.

The right of E.E. ‘Doc’ Smith to be identified as the author of this work has been asserted by him in accordance with the Copyright, Designs and Patents Act 1988.

First published in Great Britain in 2013 by

Gollancz

The Orion Publishing Group Ltd

Orion House

5 Upper Saint Martin’s Lane

London, WC2H 9EA

An Hachette UK Company

This eBook first published in 2013 by Gollancz.

A CIP catalogue record for this book is available from the British Library.

ISBN 978 1 473 20184 2

All characters and events in this publication are fictitious and any resemblance to real persons, living or dead, is purely coincidental.

No part of this publication may be reproduced, stored in a retrieval system or transmitted in any form or by any means, without the prior permission in writing of the publisher, nor to be otherwise circulated in any form of binding or cover other than that in which it is published without a similar condition, including this condition, being imposed on the subsequent purchaser.

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Dorothy Seaton was highly averse to having the appearance of her living room ruined by office equipment. Seaton, however, was living and working under such high tension that he had to have almost instant access to the Valeron’s Brain, at any time of the day or night or wherever he might be. Hence this compromise – inconspicuous machines, each direct-connected to the cubic mile of ultra-miniaturization that was the Brain. E. E. S.

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