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Galactic Patrol is a science fiction novel by American author E. E. Smith. The novel was originally serialized in the magazine Astounding in 1937. The stories in this volume were the first parts written of the original Lensman saga. It was later published in book form in 1950 by Fantasy Press.
Solaris (/ s ə ˈ l ɑːr ɪ s /) is a 1961 science fiction novel by Polish writer Stanisław Lem. It follows a crew of scientists on a space station research facility as they attempt to understand an extraterrestrial intelligence, which takes the form of a vast ocean on the titular alien planet. The novel is one of Lem's best-known works.
The novel is set in a future in which the human race has developed interstellar spaceflight and is engaged in trade with a number of alien races. However, human slavery has reappeared on some planets. The Hegemonic Guard, the space military force of the human government, tries to enforce the law and fight the slave trade on frontier planets.
The book features one of the earliest instances of anti-gravity in fiction. [19] [20] It is the first anti-gravitational metal, [8] the first example of anti-gravity being treated as a matter of science rather than a supernatural phenomenon, [b] [19] and the first time anti-gravity was used for space travel in science fiction.
(The rest of the galaxy's species lived in harmony amongst themselves before they developed enough to reach out into space.) The first book deals with the Weave and humans trying to come to terms with each other, the first humans begin to fight in the war and the Amplitur attempt to capture Earth to deny the Weave their new allies.
The background of Mars presented in the novel, as a desert planet crisscrossed by giant Martian canals built by an ancient civilization to bring water from the polar ice caps, is a common scenario in science fiction novels of the early 20th century, and was actually put forward as a plausible theory by some astronomers around the turn of the ...
Novels about space warfare (3 C, 5 P) Pages in category "Novels set in outer space" The following 11 pages are in this category, out of 11 total.
Except for the two prequel novels, the stories first appeared as serials in Astounding Science Fiction, almost all of which were serialized under the editorship of John W. Campbell. They were later collected and reworked into the better-known series of books. The complete series in narrative sequence with original publication dates is as follows.