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E. E. Smith

Lifespan
1890 – 1965
Nationality
American
Active
1928 – 1961
Works held
21

E. E. ‘Doc’ Smith (1890–1965), a food chemist by profession, hence the nickname, effectively invented modern space opera. The Skylark of Space (serialised 1928) blew the walls off the pulp imagination, and his sweeping Lensman series gave the genre its template for galaxy-spanning conflict, super-science and cosmic stakes. Clunky prose and all, his influence on everything from Star Wars to Green Lantern is impossible to overstate.

The works

  1. 1961
    Cover of Masters of Space Masters of Space
  2. 1960
    Cover of Masters of the vortex Masters of the vortex Cover of Subspace Survivors Subspace Survivors
  3. 1959
    Cover of The Galaxy Primes The Galaxy Primes
  4. 1954
    Cover of Lord Tedric Lord Tedric
  5. 1953
    Cover of Tedric Tedric
  6. 1950
    Cover of First Lensman First Lensman
  7. 1948
    Cover of Triplanetary Triplanetary
  8. 1947
    Cover of Children of the lens Children of the lens
  9. 1942
    Cover of Storm Cloud on Deka Storm Cloud on Deka Cover of The vortex blaster makes war The vortex blaster makes war
  10. 1941
    Cover of Second stage Lensmen Second stage Lensmen Cover of The Vortex Blaster The Vortex Blaster
  11. 1939
    Cover of Gray Lensman Gray Lensman Cover of Robot nemesis Robot nemesis
  12. 1937
    Cover of Galactic Patrol Galactic Patrol
  13. 1934
    Cover of The Skylark of Valeron The Skylark of Valeron Cover of Triplanetary Triplanetary
  14. 1931
    Cover of Spacehounds of IPC Spacehounds of IPC
  15. 1930
    Cover of Skylark Three Skylark Three
  16. 1928
    Cover of The Skylark of Space The Skylark of Space

Wrote across

1920s1930s1940s1950s1960s

Recurring themes

Space OperaHard SFMilitary SFTime TravelAlternate HistoryFirst ContactArtificial IntelligencePsychic Powers

Kindred authors shared themes

Charles L. FontenayJim HarmonLester Del ReyRandall GarrettFritz LeiberGeorge O. SmithH. Beam PiperJohn Victor Peterson

Contemporaries writing in the same era

Randall GarrettGeorge O. SmithStephen MarloweMurray LeinsterVariousNelson S. BondBryce WaltonH. Beam PiperRay CummingsMack Reynolds

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