Masters of the Vortex

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By Listen TheBook Posted on Jun 1, 2023

In Category - Action & Adventure Fiction, Science Fiction

Authors: E. E. Smith In Year : 1960

Book Language: English

Audiobook: Masters of the Vortex

Chapter 1: Catastrophe
Chapter 2: Cloud Blasts a Vortex
Chapter 3: Cloud Loses an Arm
Chapter 4: Storm Cloud on Deka
Chapter 5: The Boneheads
Chapter 6: Driving Jets are Weapons
Chapter 7: The Blaster Acquires a Crew
Chapter 8: Vesta the Vegian
Chapter 9: Trouble on Tominga
Chapter 10: Janowick
Chapter 11: Joan the Telepath
Chapter 12: Vesta Practices Spaceal
Chapter 13: Games Within Games
Chapter 14: Vesta the Gambler
Chapter 15: Joan and Her Brains
Chapter 16: Vegian Justice
Chapter 17: The Call
Chapter 18: Cahuita

"Masters of the Vortex" is a 1960 novel by E.E. "Doc" Smith which incorporates and expands upon three short stories, "The Vortex Blaster", "Storm Cloud on Deka", and "The Vortex Blaster Makes War". Somewhat confusingly, it was originally published under the title "The Vortex Blaster", the same name as the first short story, before being republished as "Masters of the Vortex". It is the final novel, or a spinoff, of The Lensmen stories. It follows the adventures of Neal "Storm" Cloud, a brilliant mathematician who makes it his personal mission to snuff out wiild nuclear vortexes all over the galaxy, at great risk to his own safety. He visits multiple alien worlds and their intelligent species, and gains a crew and a protege. Can he successfully destroy the nuclear vortexes? And are all of them random occurrences, or are they being used for nefarious means? (Summary by Harley James)