E. E. 'Doc' Smith wrote early space opera on a vast scale, with super-science, interstellar war and escalating technologies that helped define the genre's pulp-era vocabulary. The Skylark of Space begins with a scientific breakthrough that leads to travel beyond Earth and conflict with formidable rivals. The Lensman series, beginning in its central sequence with Galactic Patrol, follows an interstellar organisation whose agents use advanced technology and mental abilities against increasingly large cosmic threats. Smith's prose is energetic, melodramatic and technologically exuberant rather than subtle, with each instalment tending to increase the scale of weapons, civilisations and stakes. His bibliography sits most naturally across classic science fiction, space opera and pulp adventure. Readers interested in the historical development of large-scale interstellar fiction will find Lensman the key sequence. Read more Less
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