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The Best of E.E. "Doc" Smith
Classic Adventures in Space By One of SF's Great Originals

LIST OF CONTENTS
Preface by Philip Harbottle
Foreword by Walter Gillings
To the Far Reaches of Space
Robot Nemesis
Pirates of Space
The Vortex Blaster
Tedric
Lord Tedric
Subspace Survivors
The Imperial Stars
Afterword: The Epic of Space by E E "Doc" Smith
Bibliography
PREFACE

When "The Skylark of Space" was published in AMAZING STORIES in 1928 it gave
the science fiction fraternity the road to the stars. It also had a profound
effect on other writers, notably John W. Campbell, who took their cue from
Smith.

TO THE FAR REACHES OF SPACE, a complete - in itself excerpt from the famous
novel, records this initial leap beyond the solar system. Told with verve and
gusto, the narrative admirably shows Smith's panache in handling vast
distances and strange alien worlds.

As "The Skylark of Space" shattered the confines of the space story in 1928,
so ROBOT NEMESIS widened the frontiers of the robot story when it first
appeared (under another title) in 1934. Robots in the early days of science
fiction were usually clanking monstrosities who threatened their scientist
creators. In this story Smith's illimitable imagination postulates a future
wherein robots actually threaten to supplant mankind as the Lords of Creation.

Smith's writing was never better than in the opening chapters of
""Triplanetary." The complex structure of the pirate base, a self-contained
world in space, comes across with absolute credibility in the complete segment
PIRATES OF SPACE.

THE VORTEX BLASTER is definitive Smith, with its skillful intermingling of
super-science and human interest. The tragedy of Neal Cloud immediately grips
the reader who easily identifies with Cloud in his fight against the atomic
horror responsible for his wife's death.

In TEDRIC (1953) and LORD TEDRIC (1954), the reader is offered two lost gems
which were originally published in two of the rarest magazines in the field.
Here one finds a fascinating blend of sword and sorcery and the paradoxes of
time travel, in the inimitable Smith style.