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BATTLE RAGES ACROSS SPACE!
The Primes went down, over what had been one of that world's largest cities. The air, the stratosphere, and all
nearby space was full of battling vessels of all shapes and sizes, ranging from the tremendous globular
spaceships of the invading Dilipics down to the tiny, one-man jet-fighters of the Arpalones.
The Dilipics were using projectile weapons only - ranging in size from heavy machine guns up to 75-millimetre
quick-firing rifles. They were also launching thousands of guided missiles of fantastic speed and of tremendous
explosive power.
Each defending Arpalone vessel, depending upon its type and class, carried from four up to a hundred
burnished-metal reflectors some four feet in diameter, each with a small black device at its optical centre and
each pouring out a tight beam of highly effective energy. Whenever one struck a Dilipic ship or plane
everything in its path flared almost instantly into vapour and the beam glared incandescently.
The invading task-force was arranged hi a whirling, swirling, almost cylindrical cone, like a tornado. Each
Dilipic unit seemed madly, suicidally determined that nothing would get through that furious wall to interfere
with whatever it was that was coming down from space to the ground through the relatively quiet 'eye' of the
pseudo-hurricane.
On the other hand, the Arpalones were madly, suicidally determined to break through that vortex wall. Group
after group of jet-fighters came diving in. Occasionally, their combined blasts made enough of an opening for
the centre fighter to get through. Once inside, the pilot stood his little stubby-winged craft squarely on her tail,
opened his projectors to absolute maximum power and spread, and climbed straight up ...
THE GALAXY PRIMES - a superb novel of conflict and high adventure in the depths of space by E. E. 'Doc' Smith,
world-famous creator of the epic LENSMAN and SKYLARK series (both avail' able in Panther Science Fiction).
Also by E. E. 'Doc' Smith in Panther Science Fiction
Spacehounds oflPC Subspace Explorers*
The LENSMAN series
Triplanetary First Lensman Galactic Patrol Grey Lensman Second Stage Lensmen Children of the Lens Masters of
the Vortex
The SKYLARK series
The Skylark of Space Skylark Three Skylark of Valeron Skylark DuQuesne
*Forthcoming
E. E. 'Doc' Smith

The Galaxy Primes
Panther
Granada Publishing Limited
First published in Great Britain in 1975 by
Panther Books Ltd
Frogmore, St Albans, Herts AL2 2NF
Copyright ┬й 1965 by Edward E. Smith, Ph.D. Made and printed in Great Britain by Richard Clay (The
Chaucer Press) Ltd Bungay, Suffolk Set in Linotype Times
This book is sold subject to the condition that it shall not, by way of trade or otherwise, be lent, re-sold, hired
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in which it is published and without a similar condition including this condition being imposed on the
subsequent purchaser. This book is published at a net price and is supplied subject to the Publishers Association
Standard Conditions of Sale registered under the Restrictive Trade Practices Act, 1956.
THE GALAXY PRIMES

ONE
Her hair was a brilliant green. So was her spectacularly filled halter. So were her tight short-shorts, her lipstick, and
the lacquer on her finger- and toe-nails. As she strolled into the Main of the starship, followed hesitantly by the other
girl, she drove a mental probe at the black-haired, powerfully-built man seated at the instrument-banked console.