076b: Reading from The Skylark of Space, by . Smith and Lee Hawkins Garby, chapter 11by Pulp-Lit Storytellers Club. Seaton opened his eyes and gazed about him wonderingly. Only half conscious, bruised and sore in every part of his body, he could not at first realize what had happened. Instinctively drawing a deep breath, he coughed and choked as the undiluted oxygen filled his lungs, bringing with it a complete understanding of the situation
The Skylark of Space is one of the earliest novels of interstellar travel and is considered a classic of pulp science fiction. Originally serialized in 1928 in the magazine Amazing Stories it is often categorized as the first literary space opera, complete with protagonists perfect in mind, body, and spirit, who fight against villains of absolute evil. This is a Librivox recording.
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The Skylark Valeron is even bigger with a gigantic computer brain that Seaton's mind interacts with to battle intergalactic foes. We learn to loath the villain "Blackie" D. arc C. DuQuesne who in the end saves the galaxy by mass genocide extermination on millions of planets and making many suns super nova. If you are fan of Space Opera, this is one of the greats. Coincidentally, I also believe the series with the greatest gap between first story (worked on between 1915-1921, serialized in 1928 in Amazing Stories) and last story (1965). Stories with ever increasing scope of action, with heroes that wear the whitest of white hats, and villains with the blackest of hearts, while still exhibiting a strict honor code. While not the greatest of . Smith's works, that status is accorded to the Lensman series, it is still considered to be one of the early inspirations for the whole field of space opera.
Edward Elmer Smith (May 2, 1890 – August 31, 1965), better known by his pen name E. "Doc" Smith, was an American food engineer (specializing in doughnut and pastry mixes) and science-fiction author, best known for the Lensman and Skylark series. He is sometimes called the father of space opera. Family and education. Early chemical career and the beginning of Skylark. The early 1930s: between Skylark and Lensman. Retirement and late writing.
Narrated by Reed McColm. The Skylark of Space is the first and one of the best space operas ever written. Breezy dialogue, romantic intrigue, fallible heroes. Breezy dialogue, romantic intrigue, fallible heroes, and complicated villains infuse humanity and believability into a conflict of galactic proportions.
All of this has a certain crude vigour-Smith was one of the first people in pulp sf to exploit that sense of scale in time and space that Olaf Stapledon was doing more thoughtfully in his work and Smith was one of the first sf writers whose aliens are not just human beings in strange suits; his work is clumsy.
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PUBLIC DOMAIN PDF Page. LibriVox: The Skylark Of Space by . Thursday, December 16, 2010 Jesse Willis Online Audio. The Skylark Of Space By . Smith; Read by Richard Kilmer 19 Zipped MP3 Files or Podcast – Approx. 9 Hours 22 Minutes Publisher: LibriVox. org Published: December 16, 2010 The novel begins with the accidental discovery, in a Government laboratory in Washington D. of a form of clean nuclear power. Our hero, Dr. Richard Seaton, uses this power to build first a flying belt and then an interstellar spaceship. One thought to LibriVox: The Skylark Of Space by . Ly Tam Phao says: Thursday, April 7, 2011 at 8:15 pm. This version is horribly ABRIDGED! It cuts out extra details, rewrote and Frenched the story, which make it a pale shadow of the full text! Check out the full version at.
