UNLIMITED Audiobooks and eBooks
Over 40,000 books & works on all major devices
Get ALL YOU CAN for FREE for 30 days!
Spacehounds of IPC
E. E. Smith
Book Overview:
When the Inter-Planetary Corporation's (IPC) crack liner “IPV Arcturus” took off on a routine flight to Mars, it turned out to be the beginning of a unexpected and long voyage. There had been too many reports of errors in ship's flight positions from the Check Stations and brilliant physicist Dr. Percival (“Steve”) Stevens is aboard the Arcturus on a fact-finding mission to find out what's really happening, and hopefully save the honor of the brave pilots of the space-liner Arcturus from the desk-jockeys' in the Check Stations implications of imprecision - the nastiest insult you could cast at a ships pilot. He and the pilots are right, it was the Check Stations that were out of position, not the ships. But that's cold consolation because before the Arcturus reaches Mars it's attacked by a small, mysterious, globe shaped spaceship. (Summary from Wikipedia)
When the Inter-Planetary Corporation's (IPC) crack liner “IPV Arcturus” took off on a routine flight to Mars, it turned out to be the beginning of a unexpected and long voyage. There had been too many reports of errors in ship's flight positions from the Check Stations and brilliant physicist Dr. Percival (“Steve”) Stevens is aboard the Arcturus on a fact-finding mission to find out what's really happening, and hopefully save the honor of the brave pilots of the space-liner Arcturus from the desk-jockeys' in the Check Stations implications of imprecision - the nastiest insult you could cast at a ships pilot. He and the pilots are right, it was the Check Stations that were out of position, not the ships. But that's cold consolation because before the Arcturus reaches Mars it's attacked by a small, mysterious, globe shaped spaceship. (Summary from Wikipedia)
How does All You Can Books work?
All You Can Books gives you UNLIMITED access to over 40,000 Audiobooks, eBooks, and Foreign Language courses. Download as many audiobooks, ebooks, language audio courses, and language e-workbooks as you want during the FREE trial and it's all yours to keep even if you cancel during the FREE trial. The service works on any major device including computers, smartphones, music players, e-readers, and tablets. You can try the service for FREE for 30 days then it's just $19.99 per month after that. So for the price everyone else charges for just 1 book, we offer you UNLIMITED audio books, e-books and language courses to download and enjoy as you please. No restrictions.
"And then what?"
"You know as much as I do. Imprisonment and restraint, certain; death, possible; return to Earth, almost certainly impossible—life as guests, highly improbable."
"I'm with you, Steve, all the way."
"Well, it's time to spring off—we've both been awake better than fifty hours. Personally, I'm all in, and you're so near dead that you're a physical wreck. We'll get us a bite of supper and turn in."
An appetizing supper was prepared from the abundant stores and each ate a heartier meal than either would have believed possible. Stevens considered his unopened package of cigarettes, then regretfully put it back into his pocket still unopened and turned to Nadia.
"Well, little fellow, it's time to shove off, and then some. You might as well sleep here, and. . . Read More
Try now for FREE!
"Love your service - thanks so much for what you do!"
- Customer Cathryn Mazer
"I did not realize that you would have so many audio books I would enjoy"
- Customer Sharon Morrison
"For all my fellow Audio Book & E-Book regulars:
This is about as close to nirvana as I have found!"
- Twitter post from @bobbyekat
Community Reviews
Spacehounds of IPC is a stand-alone novel by E.E. "Doc" Smith, the father of space opera (and donuts). It's a fun pulp adventure that was serialized in Amazing Stories in 1931 (a couple of years after Buck Rogers debuted and a few years prior to Flash Gordon) and was made available in a slightly rev
I dug through the archives for this ‘blast from the past’ a novel that introduced me to classic science fiction many years ago (many, many, many years). One of the classics of the space opera genre. A little jarring for 21st century readers but read this with a little nostalgia and I am sure you wil
Aliens, esoteric weapons, physics, romance! A fun, old-fashioned, outer space romp.
I was really surprised to find this at a library book sale... you don't see alot of EE Smith around, and a non-lensman book at that!
This was a strange mix of attempts at Hard Sci-fi (As best as one can do in the 40s at least) and Burroughs' style planetary travel.. which each planet and moon having
I have a particular love for Nineteen Thirties Sci Fi, despite the fact that much of it has become quite dated and a difficult read for people significantly younger than me.
This was serialised in Amazing Stories in Nineteen Thirty One and I last read it about thirty years ago. Interestingly, in the
This space epic is stamped with E. E. "Doc" Smith's unique style. A buff, brainy hero and his female counterpart battle everything from perfumed plants to spacegoing aliens.
Some aspects of the book are a bit jarring in the 21st century. Its 1931 publication date is partly responsible for the quaint