Skylark of Space

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By Listen TheBook Posted on May 30, 2023

In Category - Science Fiction

Authors: E. E. Smith, Lee Hawkins Garby In Year : 1920

Book Language: English

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01 - The Occurrence of the Impossible
02 - Steel Becomes Interested
03 - Seaton Solves the Problem of Power
04 - Steel Liberates Energy Unexpectedly
05 - Direct Action
06 - The Object Compass at Work
07 - The Trial Voyage
08 - Indirect Action
09 - Lost in Space
10 - The Rescue
11 - Through Space into the Carboniferous
12 - The Mastery of Mind Over Matter
13 - Nalboon of Mardonale
14 - Nalboon Unmasked
15 - The Escape from Mardonale
16 - An Osnomain Marriage
17 - Bird, Beast, or Fish?
18 - The Invasion
19 - The Return to Earth

The novel begins with the accidental discovery, in a Government laboratory in Washington D. C., of a form of clean nuclear power. Our hero, Dr. Richard Seaton, uses this power to build first a flying belt and then an interstellar spaceship. He later discovers that the process operates by generation and manipulation of gravity fields.

When his government coworkers do not believe him, Seaton acquires rights to his discovery from the government and commercializes it with the aid of his friend, millionaire inventor Martin Crane. A former colleague, Dr. Marc DuQuesne, joins with the unscrupulous World Steel Corporation to try to steal Seaton's invention. The resulting conflict escalates, as Seaton and Duquesne develop greater and greater technical capabilities and enlist more and more powerful alien races as allies.. (Summary by Wikipedia)