E. E. (Doc) Smith
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They were four of the greatest minds in the Universe: the Galaxy Primes, two men and two women aboard the experimental spaceship Pleiades billions of parsecs from home. And as they mentally charted the cosmos to find their way back to earth, their own loves and hates were as startling as the worlds they encountered
2) Triplanetary
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The first installment in the groundbreaking Lensman series, one of the greatest space opera sagas of all time. Nevia, located many light years from the Earth's sun, is running out of iron, the primary source of energy for the planet's dominant amphibious race. Armed with technology that can extract iron atoms from anything it encounters - rock, machinery, man-made structures, even human blood - the Nevians set their sights on a rich lode of the precious...
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This work of science fiction by Edward Elmer Smith ("Doc Smith") and E. Everett Evans tells the story of a deep space naval mission known as Project Theta Orionis. Onboard, Jarvis Hilton and his team of scientists find their ship, the Perseus, is dropped into normal space and facing an encounter with a peculiar object. They have no idea what to make of it all and unexpectedly find themselves as witnesses to a enormous space battle. Following the encounter...
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When the Inter-Planetary Corporation's top spaceliner Arcturus embarks on a routine flight to Mars it begins a most unexpected voyage. Attacked by a mysterious spaceship, the liner ditches on Ganymede, where the survivors must master that world's primeval terrors, construct a new spacecraft, and find a way to deal with the warring intelligences of the Jovian system
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Finding that his government laboratory coworkers do not believe his discovery of a revolutionary power source that will enable interstellar flight, Dr. Richard Seaton acquires rights to his discovery from the government and commercializes it with the aid of his friend, millionaire inventor Martin Crane. When a former colleague tries to steal the invention, not only the future of Dr. Seaton and his allies, but ultimately the entire world hangs in the...
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This is a science fiction short story by Edward Elmer Smith ("Doc Smith") and illustrated by van Dongen. 'There has always been, and will always be, the problem of surviving the experience that any trained expert can handle ... when there hasn't been any first survivor to be an expert! When no one has ever gotten back to explain what happened....' This work is part of our Vintage Sci-Fi Classics Series, a series in which we are republishing some of...
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This epic space opera from the father of the genre is an "adventure of an unprecedented kind . . . The first great 'classic' of American science fiction" (Isaac Asimov).
From Science Fiction– and Fantasy Hall of Fame–inductee E. E. Smith, The Skylark of Space chronicles the groundbreaking adventures of scientist Richard Seaton. After stumbling upon the secrets of atomic energy during a laboratory accident, Seaton partners with wealthy...
8) Gray Lensman
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Kimball Kinnison, the greatest Lensman of his day, is on a mission to destroy the dreaded space pirates known as the Boskone. The Boskonians are set on complete conquest of the civilized worlds. Their strongholds are shielded from the Lensman by impenetrable thought screens.
Kinnison is up to the task, but what he doesn't know is that Boskone's influence reaches all way into his beloved Galactic Patrol. Will he discover this before it's too late.
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"They came from an alien time continuum with the sole intention of subjugating the Lensmen and ruling the entire galaxy and everything in it. But the Lensmen had no intention of letting that happen. Voted one of the two best science fiction series of all time, coming in behind only Asimov's Foundation series.
Collected together in one binding for the very first time are all six Lensman novels and the final book of Lensman short stories for 7 complete...
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Neal "Storm" Cloud failed his Lensman exam, But life has a strange way of making heroes of even those who sometimes fail. Cloud's family is tragically killed when a misguided attempt to blow out a vortex lands one of the fragments right on his house. Devastated by the loss of his family, Cloud takes a leave of absence from the Radiation Lab where he works studying the vortices. As he drives he is struck with an idea for "blowing out" a vortex. It...
11) First Lensman
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Virgil Samms has a dream. He wants to establish the Galactic Patrol to protect civilization from the forces of evil. Samms is guided to Arisia, a previously unapproachable planet, where he is greeted by a benevolent and telepathic Arisian who presents him with a Lens. It gives its wearer the ability to communicate telepathically with any being or animal with a mind. The Lens underlies all the remaining stories in the series. Samms is charged with...
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Book 5 of the Lensman series. Kimball Kinnison and Clarissa MacDougall, two of finest lensman to ever live, plan to get married, but first they must come up with a plan to keep Earth safe from the Boskonians. It will take all the Lensmans' skills and training to keep humanity safe. A rollicking Space opera!
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Book 6 of the Lensman series. Galactic Co-ordinator Kimball Kinnison finished his second cup of Tellurian coffee, got up from the breakfast table, and prowled about in black abstraction. Twenty-odd years had changed him but little. He weighed the same, or a few pounds less; although a little of his mass had shifted downward from his mighty chest and shoulders. His hair was still brown, his stern face was only faintly lined. He was mature, with a conscious...
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The E. E. "Doc" Smith MEGAPACK™ collects 11 works by Smith, including entries in the Lensman, Skylark, Subspace, and Lord Tedric series - in all, more than 1,700 pages of galaxy-spanning adventure! Included are:
TRIPLANETARY
FIRST LENSMAN
THE VORTEX BLASTER
THE GALAXY PRIMES
MASTERS OF SPACE
THE SKYLARK OF SPACE
SKYLARK THREE
SPACEHOUNDS OF IPC
SUBSPACE SURVIVORS
TEDRIC
LORD TEDRIC
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15) Galactic Patrol
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Kimball Kinnison is one of the greatest Lensman to ever live. Galactic Patrol follows his early career and his rise to prominence.
The Boskonians are the most feared pirates in the galaxy. Their ships are much faster than almost anything the Galactic Patrol posses. The one exception is their new experimental ship the Britannia. Built to be the fastest ship in space, she has abandoned the traditional ray armament of a star ship for weapons much...