Space Opera

I really like space opera, especially E. E. "Doc" Smith. One of the first science fiction books I read was Triplanetary by Smith, in the Pyramid version with those great "white with viewport showing strange spaceships" covers. No people, just blazing projectors and hot jets. Lots of incandescent beams vaporizing stuff left and right. They don't write them like that anymore (for the most part), and it is on reflection probably just as well.

Authors

E. E. "Doc" Smith .

Parent

Last updated 12/7/95. Douglas Stuart
Department of Computer Sciences
The University of Texas at Austin
dastuart@cs.utexas.edu