Chapter I: Front Matter

Note: Project Gutenberg also has an HTML version of this
file which includes the original illustrations.
See 20869-h.htm or 20869-h.zip:
(https://www.gutenberg.org/dirs/2/0/8/6/20869/20869-h/20869-h.htm)
or
(https://www.gutenberg.org/dirs/2/0/8/6/20869/20869-h.zip)

+----------------------------------------------------------+
| Transcriber's note |
| |
| This etext was produced from Amazing Stories August, |
| September and October 1928. Extensive research did not |
| uncover any evidence that the U.S. copyright on this |
| publication was renewed. |
| |
| Other notes and a list of corrections made will be found |
| at the end of the book. |
+----------------------------------------------------------+

THE SKYLARK OF SPACE

by

EDWARD ELMER SMITH

In Collaboration with

LEE HAWKINS GARBY

+--------------------------------------+
| |
| _Perhaps it is a bit unethical and |
| unusual for editors to voice their |
| opinion of their own wares, but when |
| such a story as "The Skylark of |
| Space" comes along, we just feel as |
| if we must shout from the housetops |
| that this is the greatest |
| interplanetarian and space flying |
| story that has appeared this year. |
| Indeed, it probably will rank as one |
| of the great space flying stories |
| for many years to come. The story is |
| chock full, not only of excellent |
| science, but woven through it there |
| is also that very rare element, love |
| and romance. This element in an |
| interplanetarian story is often apt |
| to be foolish, but it does not seem |
| so in this particular story._ |
| |
| _We know so little about |
| intra-atomic forces, that this |
| story, improbable as it will appear |
| in spots, will read commonplace |
| years hence, when we have atomic |
| engines, and when we have solved the |
| riddle of the atom._ |
| |
| _You will follow the hair-raising |
| explorations and strange ventures |
| into far-away worlds with bated |
| breath, and you will be fascinated, |
| as we were, with the strangeness of |
| it all._ |
| |
+--------------------------------------+