Book description
Gone from the galaxy... A startling discovery has shaken Earth's
galactic Empire: more than two hundred and fifty thousand people have
vanished from the resort moon, Vesa, without a trace! Called to duty,
SOTE's most daring secret agents, Jules and Yvette D'Alembert - the
former aerialists from the triple-gravity planet Des Plaines, possessed
of lightning-reflexes and super-strength - are faced with a lethal and
baffling conspiracy. Together the D'Alemberts have conquered many of the
Empire's most dangerous foes, but now the mighty pair must divide forces
- each to challenge a deadly evil terror alone! Stranglers' Moon is the
second book in the "Family D'Alembert" series. E. E. 'Doc'
Smith (1890 - 1965). Edward Elmer Smith was born in Wisconsin in 1890.
He attended the University of Idaho and graduated with degrees in
chemical engineering; he went on to attain a PhD in the same subject,
and spent his working life as a food engineer. Smith is best known for
the 'Skylark' and 'Lensman' series of novels, which are arguably the
earliest examples of what a modern audience would recognise as Space
Opera. Early novels in both series were serialised in the dominant pulp
magazines of the day: Argosy, Amazing Stories, Wonder Stories and a
pre-Campbell Astounding, although his most successful works were
published under Campbell's editorship. Although he won no major SF
awards, Smith was Guest of Honour at the second World Science Fiction
Convention in Chicago, in 1940. He died in 1965. Stephen Goldin is an
American SF author.
