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Skylark of Valeron

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I love these campy old naive space operas.
The hero's are all but infallible, the villains are always foiled, and there isnt any harsh reality cutting in on your story.

Of course if this was written in the last 40 years I might find all that irritating instead of gitchy - but I have a soft spot for old timey sci-fi, and it is fun to read the books where George Lucas took 60% of Star Wars out of - that is between the Skylark series and the Lensmen series.

If you want your mind expanded, read something else - if you want to zoom across the galaxies and into the 4th dimension - these are AWESOME

If the series ended with this book, it would be enough.

(There IS another... "Skylark DuQuesne", written years later)

In 1934, this book covered as much ground as any epic space opera has ever covered since. The writing can get a little hokey when Smith tries to deal with how beautiful the women are, and how deeply in love everyone is... okay, enough already! Luckily, he didn't spend much time on relationships. Action and speculation were Smith's areas of expertise.

Loved it. If I ever get a copy of "Skylark DuQuesne" I'll read that, too. If not, this is enough.

If you're halfway through the John Carter of Mars series, put it down and read this-- the next step. By now, you've surely figured out you're reading the same book over and over, anyway! Forget Tharks for a while, and travel through interstellar space with Richard Seaton, genius adventurer. (Then finish reading the Mars books, 'cause they're fun too!)