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Sci Fi Focus   >   Encyclopedia   >   E. E. "Doc" Smith
Edward Elmer Smith, phD. (1890-1965) was an American science fiction author best known for his Skylark and Lensman series which were the first modern Space Operas.

Remarkably, in the 1930s, he foreshadowed modern military concepts including AWACS, the Strategic Defense Initiative, and Stealth. In The Skylark of Space (originally written 1915-1920 with Mrs Lee Hawkins Garby) he also described a Cold Fusion process, almost identical to the one described by Martin Fleischmann and Stanley Pons in 1989.

Robert A. Heinlein noted that E. E. Smith's supposedly unrealistic heroes, were remarkably like E. E. Smith himself and his wife. Heinlein even began to suspect that Smith might be a superman of some sort, when Smith improvised a process for testing a car: by driving at high speeds, pressing their heads against roof columns, and listening for chassis squeaks using bone conduction!

Smith was an extremely influential science fiction author (many of his original ideas have been so frequently re-used by other authors that they have become clichés - though of course they weren't clichés when Smith first wrote them!). Additionally his Lensman series is said to have inspired both Spacewar (one of the first computer video games, originally developed in 1962), and George Lucas (who went on to create Star Wars).


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Chronicles of the Lensmen (The Lensmen Series, Volume 2)

By Edward E. (Doc) Smith

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Volume 2 contains the last 3 books of The Lensmen Books. Gray Lensman - Second Stage Lensman - Children of the Lens. With the Lensmen books, "Doc" Smith set the standard for all space opera to come. Chronicles of the Lensmen, Vol.2 completes the famous series, taking you behind the front lines of a titanic struggle for control of the Universe.

Lord Tedric 1

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First novel in a series conceived by Smith before his death. Eklund wrote the four volumes in this series; this volume was followed by "Space Pirates" (1979), "Black Knight of the Iron Sphere" (1979) and "Alien Realms" (1980).

Purity Plot

By E. E. 'Doc' Smith

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Appointment At Bloodstar

By E. E. "Doc" Smith

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Gray Lensman

By Edward E."Doc" Smith

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Lord Tedric, Vol. 1

By Gordon Eklund

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This series was created by E. E. "Doc" Smith, but left unwritten at his death. First book in the series. "The best of science fantasy meets the best of science fiction as Tedric battles his way through two universes of adventure."

Master Of The Vortex

By E. E. "Doc" Smith

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First Lensman

By E.E. "Doc" Smith

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Spacehounds of IPC (Classic Ace SF, F-372)

By Edward E. ("Doc") Smith

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An epic of super-science space adventure. Ace book # F-372

Children of the Lens (Pyramid SF, X-1294)

By Edward E. ("Doc") Smith

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