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The Skylark of Space

By E.E. "Doc" Smith & Lee Hawkins Garby &
The Skylark of Space by E.E. "Doc" Smith & Lee Hawkins Garby &  digital book - Fable

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THE ORIGINAL SPACE OPERA

In a fortuitous laboratory accident, crack scientist Richard Seaton has unlocked the secret of atomic energy. Now, partnered with his wealthy engineering-genius friend Martin Crane, he’s preparing to give the world the gift of limitless, virtually free energy — and of space travel.
But others want Seaton’s secret for themselves. Backed by an evil industrial trust, the sinister and unscrupulous  “Blackie” DuQuesne has a plan to kill Seaton and Crane and seize their invention for himself.
When DuQuesne makes his move, things go wrong, and the three of them soon find themselves lost in the farthest reaches of outer space ....

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“Skylark of Space is easily one of the worst books I’ve ever read. It didn’t start strong, but I was invested enough to care about what was to come next. But everything that came next carried no weight, barely any entertainment, and took no time to actually lay out a proper narrative or express a common theme. Things happened. They happened so fast that you barely realized they happened at all. Everything that could’ve been interesting, or set up an actual cohesive narrative is ditched, and we move on to the next random ass event. An alien being that exists in the 9th dimension gets a page and a half, but a wedding gets 10… This book has some of the worst pacing I’ve ever experienced in my life, in any form of media. The characters have moments of being actually interesting or believable, but these are just moments. These characters build the worlds first space ship, which is capable of FTL travel(what a development), they traverse the universe, walk on distant planets, interact with various alien life... These are all ground breaking, mind blowing things that you’d expect these people to react strongly to, but the characters don’t react. They don’t care… I didn’t care. This is the closest I’ve ever come to a DNF, and I stand by a strong mentality to always finish a book once I’ve started it. I could write a shit ton more about this horrible experience, but I just want to be done with it. Goodbye, skylark of space. I can’t believe there’s more of you.”
“[3.5] This novel was pretty sick actually. Very suitable, if like me, you find yourself in a bit of an existential crisis- floating around in space for a while really puts things into perspective. Glad I'm in my sci-fi era and this was a lovely addition, would certainly read the other books in the series once my local free library lands them.”

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