- Hardcover: 192 pages
- Publisher: Wildside Press (2 July 2007)
- Language English
- ISBN-10: 1434401359
- ISBN-13: 978-1434401359
- Product Dimensions: 15.2 x 22.9 x 1.4 cm
- Average Customer Review: 5.0 out of 5 stars See all reviews (1 customer review)
- Amazon Bestsellers Rank: 2,516,107 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)
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When the Inter-Planetary Corporation's starship Arcturus took off on a routine flight to Mars, it turned into a disastrous voyage. Attacked by a mysterious spaceship, the Arcturus crash-lands on Jupiter's moon Ganymede. The survivors must learn to master Ganymede's primeval terrors, construct a new spacecraft, and deal with the warring intelligences of the Jovian system. Of course, true spacehounds can do anything, given sufficient time, resources, and freedom from attack. A rousing interplanetary adventure in the classic tradition!
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3 of 3 people found the following review helpful
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E.E (Doc) Smith is often regarded as one of the founders of the 'space-opera' genre. This novel, originally written for serialization in a magazine in the early 1930s and published in book-form in the late 1940s, contains all the characteristics and adjectival excesses of his fiction. Many things 'coruscate', explosions are ether-bending, space is continually warped by torrents of energy. The science and technology elements are firmly rooted in the era; there are huge spaceships, massive weaponry, interplanetary liners powered by mysterious rays and navigated using calculating machines (but not computers in the current sense). The Terran protagonists are (mostly) real men's men, the females (with one exception) largely ciphers; their attitudes might be seen by some as somewhat medieval. There are habitable worlds and alien life all over the Solar System. None of the preceding qualifiers should be seen as detrimental; the book needs to be read with knowledge of the age in which it was written. Join the voyage of the IPV Arcturus and enjoy the ride. A recommended introduction to the work of a very influential author.
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11 of 11 people found the following review helpful
Moons of Jupiter, then and now.
14 Jun 1997
Format:Paperback
Edward E. Smith, Ph.D, in addition to being the foremost writer of all time about "Space Opera" was in many ways a visionary, and with his "Skylark" and "Lensman Series" constructed a universe so filled with spacefaring heroes and weird and wonderful aliens of all description as to boggle the imagination. Unlike the two series mentioned above, Spacehounds of IPC was a "stand alone" book about a huge spaceship on a standard run from Earth to Mars being partially destroyed by aliens who begin towing the spaceship back to Jupiter, where they live.
In light of todays space probe explorations of the planet Jupiter and its moons, one of which is thought to have frozen seas capable of supporting possible lifeforms, Smith's saga about "Steve Stevens" and "Nadia" Newton's adventures on Ganymede and Callisto, two of the moons of Jupiter, their subsequent rescue by Stevens'
Interplanetary Corporation friends in the IPC research spaceship "Sirius" and their involvement in the war between the Hexans and Vorkulians of Jupiter, makes one wonder what we will find when
our "Spacehounds" venture out past the Asteroid Belt and begin our own explorations of the moons of Jupiter.
I consider myself fortunate to have a hard-cover copy of this book I purchased from Fantasy Press a half-century ago, and recommend it particularly to those science-fiction enthusiasts who like the grandeur and sweep of Smith's books.
5 of 6 people found the following review helpful
First SF book I ever read - have been a convert ever since.
14 July 1999
Format:Paperback
This book contains a number of elements that are unrealistic (e.g. it features real live Martians, and the author's take on womankind is, to put it lightly, less than politically correct - though I'm told that that was simply how American society viewed women at the time). If you can look past things like that, this book is *brilliant* ! And it's a prime example of what SF was like when it all began. That also means that, compared to current SF, the story is kind of dated - SF has gone a long way since way back then. But this book really opened my eyes in regard to the fun of discovering what an author thinks the universe would be like if ____ (just fill in the blank however you like) was true, possible, and/or had turned out differently.
2 of 2 people found the following review helpful
Making the solar system safe
15 Oct 2006
Safe for our kind, that is. You know, two-legged Earthian kind, not those nasty six-legged critters.
Brilliant physicist Dr. Stevens is off on a fact-finding mission, to save the honor of the brave pilots of the space-liner Arcturus from the desk-jockeys' imprecations of imprecision - the nastiest insult in his super-scientific world. He and the pilots are right, of course, but that's cold consolation when marauders from the depths of space hack up their ship and drag it off, in obvious violation of salvage laws.
Stevens and his beloved escape to an isolated moon of Jupiter, which happens to Earth-like right down to wildlife that's pretty tasty, when cooked up right. There, the fond couple struggle to rebuild all of Western technology from the ground up, and struggle to maintain the chastity of their impromptu engagement - lots of cold showers all around, I guess. They do a fair job of both, while events progress on just about every other bit of planetary real estate around. After much zooming around between worlds, the bad guys are all vanquished, the good guys and gals get properly hitched, and the space pilots protect their manly honor.
Parts of "Spacehounds" date back to the early 1930s, 75 years ago as of this writing. The goofy anachronisms are half the fun here, based on Smith's odd inability to imagine any technology much different from his own. The dated social commentary is amusing, too, for example in his mention of a dozen-plus of the space-liner's female passengers getting married before their rescuers arrived. They obviously didn't marry each other, but it somehow appears that women marry but men don't.
The date of writing is closer to Jules Verne than to today's science fiction, but a good bit harder to take seriously. Well, being serious isn't all that much fun anyway. If you want a happy bit of heroic space-silliness, Doc Smith is the man to bring it to you.
//wiredweird
Brilliant physicist Dr. Stevens is off on a fact-finding mission, to save the honor of the brave pilots of the space-liner Arcturus from the desk-jockeys' imprecations of imprecision - the nastiest insult in his super-scientific world. He and the pilots are right, of course, but that's cold consolation when marauders from the depths of space hack up their ship and drag it off, in obvious violation of salvage laws.
Stevens and his beloved escape to an isolated moon of Jupiter, which happens to Earth-like right down to wildlife that's pretty tasty, when cooked up right. There, the fond couple struggle to rebuild all of Western technology from the ground up, and struggle to maintain the chastity of their impromptu engagement - lots of cold showers all around, I guess. They do a fair job of both, while events progress on just about every other bit of planetary real estate around. After much zooming around between worlds, the bad guys are all vanquished, the good guys and gals get properly hitched, and the space pilots protect their manly honor.
Parts of "Spacehounds" date back to the early 1930s, 75 years ago as of this writing. The goofy anachronisms are half the fun here, based on Smith's odd inability to imagine any technology much different from his own. The dated social commentary is amusing, too, for example in his mention of a dozen-plus of the space-liner's female passengers getting married before their rescuers arrived. They obviously didn't marry each other, but it somehow appears that women marry but men don't.
The date of writing is closer to Jules Verne than to today's science fiction, but a good bit harder to take seriously. Well, being serious isn't all that much fun anyway. If you want a happy bit of heroic space-silliness, Doc Smith is the man to bring it to you.
//wiredweird
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