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- Skylark of Space, The (version 2)
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The Skylark of Space is one of the earliest novels of interstellar travel and is considered a classic of pulp science fiction. Originally serialized in 1928 in the magazine Amazing Stories it is often categorized as the first literary space opera, complete with protagonists perfect in mind, body, and spirit, who fight against villains of absolute evil.
- Chapters
- The Occurrence of the Impossible
- Steel Becomes Interested
- Seaton Solves the Problem of Power
- Steel Liberates Energy—Unexpectedly
- Direct Action
- The Object-Compass at Work
- The Trial Voyage
- Indirect Action
- Lost In Space
- The Rescue
- Through Space Into the Carboniferous
- The Mastery of Mind Over Matter
- Nalboon of Mardonale
- Nalboon Unmasked
- The Escape from Mardonale
- An Osnomian Marriage
- Bird, Beast, or Fish?
- The Invasion
- The Return to Earth