A NARROW football of steel, the Interplanetary Vessel Arcturus stood upright in her berth in the dock like an egg in its cup. A hundred feet across and a hundred and seventy feet deep was that gigantic bowl, its walls supported by the structural steel and concrete of the dock and lined with hard-packed bumper-layers of hemp and fibre. High into the air extended the upper half of the ship of space - a sullen gray expanse of fifty-inch hardened steel armor, curving smoothly upward to a needle prow. Countless hundred of fine vertical scratches marred every inch of her surface, and here and there the stubborn metal was grooved and scored to a depth of inches - each scratch and score the record of an attempt of some wandering cosmic body to argue the right-of-way with the stupendous mass of that man-made cruiser of the void...
Black Cat Weekly #50
Charles Todd, Cynthia Ward, Somtow Sucharitkul, Phyllis Ann Karr, Michael Bracken, Paul Di Filippo, Barb Goffman, Elizabeth Zelvin, Darrell Schweitzer, Algis Budrys, E. E. Smith
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Triplanetary (Unabridged)
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The Skylark of Space (Unabridged)
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The Skylark of Space
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The Skylark of Space
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First Lensman
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The Galaxy Primes
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Spacehounds of I P C
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The Skylark of Space
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Skylark Three
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Triplanetary
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The Galaxy Primes
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