Masters of Space by E. E. (Doc) Smith and E. E. Evans (Two Volumes As Found in Worlds of if Science Fiction Magazine) (November 1961 and January 1962)

Pohl, Frederik (editor)

Edité par Digest Productions Corporation, New York, NY, 1962

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True First Edition. These are two trade sized magazines with illustrated covers and side stapled spines. The magazines are in Very Good+ condition and were issued without dust jackets. There is some beginning bumping and wear to the spine ends of the book covers. The text pages are clean and bright. "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. 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 associate editor Sloane requested a sequel before the second installment had been published." (from Wikipedia) "A few years later and 13 years after Smith's death, Verna Smith arranged with Gordon Eklund to publish another novel of the same name about the same fictional character, introducing it as "a new series conceived by E. E. 'Doc' Smith". Eklund later went on to publish the other novels in the series, one or two under the pseudonym "E. E. 'Doc' Smith" or "E. E. Smith". The protagonist possesses heroic qualities similar to those of the heroes in Smith's original novels and can communicate with an extra-dimensional race of beings known as the Scientists, whose archenemy is Fra Villion, a mysterious character described as a dark knight, skilled in whip-sword combat, and evil genius behind the creation of a planetoid-sized "iron sphere" armed with a weapon capable of destroying planets. As a result, Smith is believed by many to be the unacknowledged progenitor of themes that would appear in Star Wars. In fact, however, these appear in the sequels written by others after Smith's death. "(from Wikipedia).

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• Titre: Masters of Space by E. E. (Doc) Smith and E. E. Evans (Two Volumes As Found in Worlds of if Science Fiction Magazine) (November 1961 and January 1962)
• Éditeur: Digest Productions Corporation, New York, NY
• Date de parution: 1962
• Reliure: Magazine
• Édition: True First Edition; 1st Printing.
• État de l'article: Very Good+