The Collected Novels of E. E. Smith. E. E. Smith

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       E. E. Smith

      The Collected Novels of E. E. Smith

      Triplanetary, Galactic Patrol, Masters of the Vortex, The Skylark of Space, Spacehounds of IPC and more

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      Table of Contents

       Triplanetary

       First Lensman

       Galactic Patrol

       Second Stage Lensmen

       The Skylark of Space

       Skylark Three

       Spacehounds of IPC

       Masters of Space

      Triplanetary

       Table of Contents

       BOOK ONE

       CHAPTER 1. ARISIA AND EDDORE

       CHAPTER 2. THE FALL OF ATLANTIS 1. EDDORE

       CHAPTER 3. THE FALL OF ROME 1. EDDORE

       BOOK TWO

       CHAPTER 4. 1918

       CHAPTER 5. 1941

       CHAPTER 6. 19—?

       BOOK THREE

       CHAPTER 7. PIRATES OF SPACE

       CHAPTER 8. IN ROGER'S PLANETOID

       CHAPTER 9. FLEET AGAINST PLANETOID

       CHAPTER 10. WITHIN THE RED VEIL

       CHAPTER 11. NEVIAN STRIFE

       CHAPTER 12. WORM, SUBMARINE, AND FREEDOM

       CHAPTER 13. THE HILL

       CHAPTER 14. THE SUPER-SHIP IS LAUNCHED

       CHAPTER 15. SPECIMENS

       CHAPTER 16. SUPER-SHIP IN ACTION

       CHAPTER 17. ROGER CARRIES ON

       CHAPTER 18. THE SPECIMENS ESCAPE

       CHAPTER 19. GIANTS MEET

      BOOK ONE

       Table of Contents

      CHAPTER 1

      ARISIA AND EDDORE

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      Two thousand million or so years ago two galaxies were colliding; or, rather, were passing through each other. A couple of hundreds of millions of years either way do not matter, since at least that much time was required for the inter-passage. At about that same time—within the same plus-or-minus ten percent margin of error, it is believed—practically all of the suns of both those galaxies became possessed of planets.

      There is much evidence to support the belief that it was not merely a coincidence that so many planets came into being at about the same time as the galactic inter-passage. Another school of thought holds that it was pure coincidence; that all suns have planets as naturally and as inevitably as cats have kittens.

      Be that as it may, Arisian records are clear upon the point that before the two galaxies began to coalesce, there were never more than three solar systems present in either; and usually only one. Thus, when the sun of the planet upon which their race originated grew old and cool, the Arisians were hard put to it to preserve their culture, since they had to work against time in solving the engineering problems associated with moving a planet from an older to a younger sun.

      Since nothing material was destroyed when the Eddorians were forced into the next plane of existence, their historical records also have become available. Those records—folios and tapes and playable discs of platinum alloy, resistant indefinitely even to Eddore's noxious atmosphere—agree with those of the Arisians upon this point. Immediately before the Coalescence began there was one, and only one, planetary solar system in the Second Galaxy; and, until the advent of Eddore, the Second Galaxy was entirely devoid of intelligent life.

      Thus for millions upon untold millions of years the two races, each the sole intelligent life of a galaxy, perhaps of an entire space-time continuum, remained completely in ignorance of each other. Both were already ancient at the time of the Coalescence. The only other respect in which the two were similar, however, was in the possession of minds of power.

      Since Arisia was Earth-like in composition, atmosphere, and climate, the Arisians were at that time distinctly humanoid. The Eddorians were not. Eddore was and is large and dense; its liquid a poisonous, sludgy syrup; its atmosphere a foul and corrosive fog. Eddore was and is unique; so different from any other world of either galaxy that its very existence was inexplicable until its own records revealed the fact that it did