Spacehounds of IPC: Science Fiction Stories

E. E. Smith

Nov 2015 · Science Fiction Stories Book 19 · 谷月社

About this ebook

 CHAPTER I
CHAPTER II
——But Does Not Arrive
CHAPTER III
Castaways Upon Ganymede
CHAPTER IV
Ganymedean Life
PART II
Spacehounds of IPC
What Went Before:
CHAPTER V
Cantrell's Comet
CHAPTER VI
A Frigid Civilization
CHAPTER VII
The Return to Ganymede
CHAPTER VIII
Callisto to the Rescue
PART III
Spacehounds of IPC
What Went Before:
CHAPTER IX
CHAPTER X
Among Friends at Last
CHAPTER XI
The Vorkul-Hexan War
CHAPTER XII
The Citadel in Space
CHAPTER XIII
Spacehounds Triumphant

About the author

Edward Elmer Smith PhD (also E. E. Smith, E. E. "Doc" Smith, Doc Smith, "Skylark" Smith, or—to his family—Ted) (May 2, 1890 – August 31, 1965) was an American food engineer (specializing in doughnut and pastry mixes) and early science fiction author, best known for the Lensman and Skylark series. He is sometimes called the father of space opera.

In 1919 Smith was hired as chief chemist for F. W. Stock & Sons of Hillsdale, Michigan, at one time the largest family-owned mill east of the Mississippi, working on doughnut mixes.

One evening late in 1919, after moving to Michigan, Smith was baby-sitting (presumably for Roderick) while his wife attended a movie; he resumed work on The Skylark of Space, finishing it in the spring of 1920. He submitted it to many book publishers and magazines, spending more in postage than he would eventually receive for its publication. Bob Davis, editor of Argosy, sent an encouraging rejection letter in 1922, saying that he liked the novel personally, but that it was too far out for his readers.(According to Warner, but no other source, Smith began work on the sequel, Skylark III, before the first book was accepted.) Finally, upon seeing the April 1927 issue of Amazing Stories, he submitted it to that magazine; it was accepted, initially for $75, later raised to $125. It was published as a three-part serial in the August to October 1928 issues and it was such a success that managing editor Sloane requested a sequel before the second installment had been published.