Edward Smith was born in Sheboygan, Wisconsin, the son of staunch Presbyterians of British ancestry. The following winter, his family moved to Spokane, Washington, and, in 1902, to Seneaquoteen, Idaho, to farm. He received two degrees in Chemical Engineering from the University of Idaho in 1914. He married in 1915. One evening, while he and his wife were visiting friends, a discussion about space travel led to Smith agreeing to co-author a novel with one of the friends, although after getting about a third of the way through, they abandoned it. Smith went on to receive a Master's degree in Chemistry from George Washington University in 1917 and a doctorate in Chemical Engineering in 1918. In 1919, he became chief chemist for F. W. Stock & Sons of Hillsdale, Michigan. That same year he resumed writing his first novel, The Skylark of Space, which he finished in 1920, although multiple submissions failed to get it published until 1928. He continued to write and publish stories through the 1930s. In 1936 he took a job as a food technologist at the Dawn Doughnut Company of Jackson, Michigan, while continuing to write and sell fiction. During World War II, he worked for the U.S. Army, and after the war he took a job with the J. W. Allen Company, which he held until his professional retirement in 1957. After his retirement he and his wife moved to Clearwater, Florida in the winters and Seaside, Oregon in the summer. He continued to write until his death in 1965.
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Galactic patrol
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The skylark of space
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Skylark three
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Second stage Lensmen
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Children of the Lens
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Triplanetary
6 editions - first published in 1965 Borrow -
First Lensman
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Skylark of Valeron
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First Lensman
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The Vortex blaster
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Skylark DuQuesne
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Gray Lensman
4 editions - first published in 1951 -
The Skylark of Space
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Triplanetary
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Spacehounds of IPC
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Skylark Three
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Stranglers' Moon (Family d'Alembert Series #2)
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Triplanetary
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The Book-Myth, Magic, and Fact of the Bible
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Skylark DuQuesne
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Skylark Three
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Spacehounds of IPC
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The Galaxy Primes
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The Skylark of Space
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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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Spacehounds of IPC
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Children of the Lens
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Spacehounds of IPC
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Lord Tedric
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The Galaxy Primes
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Grey Lensman
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Triplanetary (Lensman Series, Vol 1)
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Imperial Stars (Panther Books) (Family d'Alembert, #1)
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Eclipsing binaries
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Masters of the Vortex
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Second Stage Lensman
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Planet of Treachery (Family D'Alembert, Bk. 7)
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Have Trenchcoat: Will Travel, and Others
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Second Stage Lensmen (Pyramid X-1262) (Lens Series, 5)
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The Omicron invasion
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Appointment at Bloodstar
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The Galaxy Primes (Ace SF, 27291)
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Gray Lensman
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Imperial Stars (Family D'Alembert, Bk. 1)
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Spacehounds of IPC (Pyramid SF, T2618)
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Second Stage Lensman (#5 in the series)
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Children of the lens [by] E. e. "Doc" Smith
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Planet of treachery
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Appointment at Bloodstar (Family d'Alembert #5)
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The clockwork traitor
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The Skylark of Space
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Skylark of Valeron (Skylark Series #3) (Pyramid SF, T2237)
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Subspace explorers
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Grey Lensman
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Galaxy Primes
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Subspace Explorers
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The Challenge From Beyond
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The imperial stars
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Strangler's moon
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Lord Tedric
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Masters of the vortex
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Subspace Encounter
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Triplanetary
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Masters of Space
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Subspace explorers
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Galactic Patrol
1 edition - first published in 1972 -
Triplanetary, a tale of cosmic adventure
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Lord Tedric The Space Pirates
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Galactic Patrol
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The purity plot
1 edition - first published in 1978 -
The Best of E.E. Doc Smith
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Second Stage Lensmen
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The Skylark of Space
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Triplanetary
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Subspace encounter
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First Lensman
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Galactic Patrol
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Skylark Three
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Galactic Patrol
1 edition - first published in 1982 -
Skylark DuQuesne
1 edition - first published in 1978 Borrow -
The skylark of space
1 edition - first published in 1966 Borrow -
Skylark DuQuesne
1 edition - first published in 1978 Borrow -
Gray Lensman
1 edition - first published in 1970 Borrow -
Triplanetary
1 edition - first published in 1973 Borrow -
First Lensman
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Imperial stars
1 edition - first published in 1976 Borrow -
Galactic patrol
1 edition - first published in 1964 Checked out
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| May 14, 2013 | Edited by TazzY2k | Changed author name to given name, surname |
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