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Tedric the hero had become Tedric the pirate . . .
He looked at his strange companions: Philip Nolan, an aristocrat turned
mutineer; Keller, a subman with canine ancestry; Ky-shan, a huge
blue-furred alien; KT294578 Wilson, an extraordinary anarchist robot. A
weird band of thieves.
But Tedric intended to use his crew for something more worthwhile than
piracy. He had a plan to overthrow the tyrannical Carey family, the
oppressors who controlled the Universe.
All the rights and wrongs of the situation were clear to Tedric . . .
until Alyc Carey, beautiful, blind daughter of the megalomaniac Melor
Carey, was taken prisoner. She seemed sympathetic to the revolutionary
cause, and yet, Tedric was unsure of her . . .
Should he see her as a hostage . . . or a recruit? 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 (1947 - )Stephen Charles Goldin began publishing science
fiction with 'The Girls on USSF 193' for If
in 1965. He has written a number of novels and received a Nebula
nomination for his short fiction, but is best known for writing the
Family D'Alembert sequence, based on a story by E. E. 'Doc' Smith. He
lives in California.
