E E Doc Smith Ultimate Sci Fi Collection

This edition brings to you exciting space operas and Sci-Fi stories by E. E. "Doc" Smith in one convenient volume! Contents: The Skylark of Space Skylark Three Spacehounds of IPC Triplanetary (I) Triplanetary (II) First Lensman Galactic Patrol Second Stage Lensmen The Vortex Blaster or, Masters of the Vortex The Galaxy Primes Subspace Survivors Imperial Stars Masters of Space Tedric Lord Tedric Robot Nemesis

This edition brings to you exciting space operas and Sci-Fi stories by E. E. "Doc" Smith in one convenient volume! Contents: The Skylark of Space Skylark Three Spacehounds of IPC Triplanetary (I) Triplanetary (II) First Lensman Galactic Patrol Second Stage Lensmen The Vortex Blaster or, Masters of the Vortex The Galaxy Primes Subspace Survivors Imperial Stars Masters of Space Tedric Lord Tedric Robot Nemesis

This edition brings to you exciting space operas and Sci-Fi stories by E. E. "Doc" Smith in one convenient volume! Contents: The Skylark of Space Skylark Three Spacehounds of IPC Triplanetary (I) Triplanetary (II) First Lensman Galactic Patrol Second Stage Lensmen The Vortex Blaster or, Masters of the Vortex The Galaxy Primes Subspace Survivors Imperial Stars Masters of Space Tedric Lord Tedric Robot Nemesis

ARISIA AND EDDORE Two thousand million or so years ago two galaxies were colliding; or, rather, were passing through each other. A couple of hundreds of millions of years either way do not matter, since at least that much time was required for the inter-passage. At about that same time—within the same plus-or-minus ten percent margin of error, it is believed—practically all of the suns of both those galaxies became possessed of planets. There is much evidence to support the belief that it was not merely a coincidence that so many planets came into being at about the same time as the galactic inter-passage. Another school of thought holds that it was pure coincidence; that all suns have planets as naturally and as inevitably as cats have kittens. Be that as it may, Arisian records are clear upon the point that before the two galaxies began to coalesce, there were never more than three solar systems present in either; and usually only one. Thus, when the sun of the planet upon which their race originated grew old and cool, the Arisians were hard put to it to preserve their culture, since they had to work against time in solving the engineering problems associated with moving a planet from an older to a younger sun. Since nothing material was destroyed when the Eddorians were forced into the next plane of existence, their historical records also have become available. Those records—folios and tapes and playable discs of platinum alloy, resistant indefinitely even to Eddore's noxious atmosphere—agree with those of the Arisians upon this point. Immediately before the Coalescence began there was one, and only one, planetary solar system in the Second Galaxy; and, until the advent of Eddore, the Second Galaxy was entirely devoid of intelligent life. Thus for millions upon untold millions of years the two races, each the sole intelligent life of a galaxy, perhaps of an entire space-time continuum, remained completely in ignorance of each other. Both were already ancient at the time of the Coalescence. The only other respect in which the two were similar, however, was in the possession of minds of power...

Edward Elmer Smith (E. E. Smith, E. E. "Doc" Smith, Doc Smith) (1890 - 1965) was an American food engineer (specializing in doughnut and pastry mixes) and early science fiction author, best known for the Lensman and Skylark series. He is sometimes called the father of space opera. Smith's novels are generally considered to be the classic space operas, and he is sometimes called the first of the three "novas" of twentieth century science fiction (with Stanley G. Weinbaum and Robert A. Heinlein as the second and third nova). In this book: Triplanetary Skylark Three The Galaxy Primes Spacehounds of IPC Subspace Survivors The Vortex Blaster

This classic science fiction novel by Edward Elmer Smith (""Doc Smith"") was first serialised in Amazing Stories in 1934. It is an episodic novel that covers a period of thousands of years and tells the story of super intelligences and their human breeding project. The two genetic lines they engineer are designed to be an ultimate weapon in the war with their arch-enemies, the Eddorians. Will they succeed? Find out in this epic work of space opera. This work is part of our Vintage Sci-Fi Classics Series, a series in which we are republishing some of the best stories in the genre by some of its most acclaimed authors, such as Isaac Asimov, Marion Zimmer Bradley, and Robert Sheckley. Each publication is complete with a short introduction to the history of science fiction.