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Title: The Skylark of Space

Author: Edward Elmer Smith and Lee Hawkins Garby

Release Date: March 21, 2007 [eBook #20869]
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Language: English

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| Transcriber's note |
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| 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. |
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THE SKYLARK OF SPACE

by

EDWARD ELMER SMITH

In Collaboration with

LEE HAWKINS GARBY

[Illustration: Cover Page]

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| _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 flyi