

Skylark Of Space
Author: E.E. Doc Smith
Series: The Skylark Series #1
Narrator: Reed McColm
Unabridged: 7 hr 3 min
Format: Digital Audiobook Download
Publisher: Books In Motion
Published: 06/15/2007
Categories: Fiction, Science Fiction
Author: E.E. Doc Smith
Series: The Skylark Series #1
Narrator: Reed McColm
Unabridged: 7 hr 3 min
Format: Digital Audiobook Download
Publisher: Books In Motion
Published: 06/15/2007
Categories: Fiction, Science Fiction
This is an early example of space opera, which attempted to add scientific elements. The father of the term ‘science fiction’ Hugo Greensback was dissatisfied with Edgar Rice Burroughs style space opera, where other planets were just a setting for adventures. He wanted the story to educate readers a......more
Check out my full, spoiler light, video review HERE. Written from 1915 to 1921 but published in 1928, so this is an old one. Cowritten with the wife of a coworker Lee Hawkins Garby. Heralded as the first interstellar ‘Space Opera’. Mostly a space adventure with intentional and unintentional humor th......more
I'd always wanted to read this series (actually, I want to also read the Lensman series) and finally got around to the first book in it. People say E.E. Smith "invented" what we now call space opera, and boy, I'm here to tell you those people are right. The Skylark of Space reads like a comic strip o......more