E. E. Smith
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Edward Elmer Smith was an American food engineer and science-fiction author, best known for the Lensman and Skylark series. He is sometimes called the father of space opera.
A scene from the first installment of The Skylark of Space, August 1928
The serial novel Skylark Three began as Amazing Stories cover story (August 1930)
Spacehounds of IPC was also serialized in Amazing Stories.
Triplanetary was the last of Smith's 1930s novels to be serialized in Amazing Stories; his Lensman novels were published in Astounding Stories.
Triplanetary (novel)
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Triplanetary is a science fiction novel and space opera by American writer E. E. Smith. It was first serialized in the magazine Amazing Stories in 1934. After the original four novels of the Lensman s
E. E. Smith
…offered Smith 2¢/word—payable on publication—for his next story, he agreed. This meant that it could not be a sequel to Spacehounds. This book would be Triplanetary, "in which scientific detail would not be bothered about, and in which his imagination would run riot." Indeed, characters within the story point out…
Dust-jacket from the first edition
Another Morey cover illustrated the third installment in the March 1934 Amazing Stories.