THE COMPLETE SKYLARK by E.E. "Doc" Smith
Hardcover. 2003. First SF Book Club Edition. This book is NOT AVAILABLE IN
STORES IN HARDCOVER! Beautiful dust jacket. Book and dust jacket in excellent
condition, like new! Includes the full-length novels The Skylark Of Space,
Skylark Three, Skylark of Valeron, and Skylark Duquesne.
Welcome to the world of the great E.E. “Doc” Smith. Dating back to 1928,
The Complete Skylark tales rocket you back in time to the very first space
operas. Campy, fun and extraordinarily engaging, these SF classics read as fast
as Seaton and friends fly through the void.
When Dr. Richard Seaton electrolyzes the heretofore unknown metal “X” in a
copper bath, the bath flies out the window and across the horizon at such
velocity he has difficulty tracking it with binoculars. Teaming up with tycoon
M. Reynolds Crane, he uses his incredible discovery to craft the most advanced
spaceship in the world—a forty-foot diameter, globe-shaped craft traveling
many times faster than the speed of light! Unfortunately, Dr. Marc DuQuesne has
learned of the discovery….
The ruthless DuQuesne shares the genius and determination of his rival, but not
his good nature. Building a similar ship, he kidnaps Seaton’s fiancée,
Dorothy, and jets off into space, along with his accomplice and another kidnap
victim. Seaton and Crane find out, and the chase is on!
Skylark, catching up to DuQuesne and company (over six quadrillion miles from
Earth) who are bounding fuel-less through space, rescues the party—including
DuQuesne, now an ally. In need of fuel, they land on the planet Osnome, where
the Kondalians and Mardonalians are fighting a brutal war—and the earthlings
find themselves in the middle of it. Will they ever get home? And are Seaton
and DuQuesne really colleagues, or is the alliance merely temporary?
A must for fans of classic space opera sci-fi! Jacket art by Vincent diFate.
(Approx. 672 pp.).
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