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The Skylark of Space (Skylark #1)

E.E. "Doc" Smith

Start date: October 24, 2023

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Oct 01, 2011 C. John Kerry rated it really liked it · review of another edition

Shelves: fiction, sci-fi, e-e-doc-smith

This was Dr. Smith's first book and is still a good read even after eighty-seven years. It starts off with a bang (literally) and proceeds from there. Our hero makes a discovery that allows for space travel and proceeds to go out into the great beyond with his best friend (who is rich and also a great inventor). They are in pursuit of Dr. Seaton's (our scientist) fiancee who has been kidnapped by the ostensible villain of the piece. Dr. DuQuesne (the villain) is in his own right an interesting c ...more

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Nov 11, 2010 Curtiss rated it really liked it

Shelves: all-time-favorites

The grandest space opera in the entire genre of one man against the universe: in which the hero Dick Seaton and his side-kick Martin Crane employ a newly discovered inertialess drive and set out in pursuit of the series' villain (and its ultimate savior) 'Blackie' DuQuesne who has stolen the secret and kidnapped Seaton's girlfriend.

Over the course of four novels, Seaton and Crane use their inspired intellects and numerous alien artifices to overcome the various opponents and complications they e ...more

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Oct 23, 2017 Chompa rated it really liked it · review of another edition

Shelves: sci-fi, 2017, pulp, audiobook

I listened to this from Librivox while commuting back and forth from work. The narrator was not great. His reading was stiff and I didn't care for how he pronounced some words. That said, it wasn't hard to get used to and he conveyed the story well enough.

First off, this is apparently the very first "space opera" and written while Elmer Smith was working on his doctorate between 1915 and 1922. That's a book that was started over 100 years before I listened to it. The portrayals of women and min ...more

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