The Second E.E. 'Doc' Smith Omnibus

by E.E. "Doc" Smith

Two Classic SF Novels and the Only eBook Collection of Smith's Short Stories. The first ship to the stars is crewed by two men and two women with incredible mental powers and incredible sexual drives--the Galaxy Primes. They will need both to survive what they find. Then real all the great E. E. Smith stories available for eBook publication from the rarely reprinted Robot Nemesis, to his two heroic fantasy novelette about Lord Tedric, the mighty warrior, to The Vortex Blaster and Subspace Survivors. Finally, join the crew of the Arcturus as they battle space pirates, enemy aliens, and their own inner passions--and still get the job done! Here is a not to be missed omnibus edition of three full length sf books!

Genres: Science Fiction

651 pages, Kindle Edition

First published January 1, 2007

About the author

Edward Elmer Smith (also E.E. Smith, E.E. Smith, Ph.D., E.E. “Doc” Smith, Doc Smith, “Skylark” Smith, or—to his family—Ted), was an American food engineer (specializing in doughnut and pastry mixes) and an early science fiction author, best known for the Lensman and Skylark series. He is sometimes called the father of space opera.

Reviews

[Derek Waldock · Rating 5 out of 5]

A rollicking old fashioned space opera

How times have changed in 80 odd years. Who knew Ganymede supported a types of human life?!! Keep an open mind.

[Dan Carey · Rating 2 out of 5]

Reading the original Buck Rogers novels helped kindle within me a fondness for pulp sci-fi. And Doc Smith is a legend of that period. So I was really prepared to enjoy this book. But ultimately I couldn't even finish it. The style is so overwrought, I could practically hear the voice of a Radio Drama Announcer reading the descriptions. ("...through raging beam, through blasting ray, through crushing force; through storm of explosive and through rain of metal the Dresden remained apparently unscathed. Her screens were radiating high into the violet, but they showed no signs of weakening or of going down...Since she was...being fought by inhumanly intelligent monstrosities, she was invulnerable to any one ship of the Fleet as long as her generators could be fed.") The opening story ("The Galaxy Primes") is so badly plotted and the characters so broadly drawn, I had to just thumb through the last half of it. If these stories are examples of good science fiction from the Pulps era, it is no wonder that sci-fi had a bad reputation for decades.