Some good adventure in Skylark but I found the racist, sexist, and colonial assumption got in the way of my enjoyment of the novel. This novel has not aged as well as some of the other early SciFi of similar vintage (e.g., Verne, Burroughs, Wells). I cannot recommend this book unless you are interested in the history and development of science fiction. ( )

Empezó en la Tierra... el científico Richard Seaton descubrió el secreto de la máxima energía... la llave para los viajes interplanetarios. El maquiavélico Duquesne, respaldado por una gran empresa industrial, trató de asesinarle para adueñarse del descubrimiento y.... todo terminó en el espacio... Seaton, Duquesne y otros tres, entre ellos dos mujeres, se perdieron en el espacio infinito a incontables años luz de la Tierra... ¡con solo una posibilidad entre un millón de retornar a ellas!

Videnskabsmanden Richard Seaton eksperimenterer med en opløsning af "X", da kobberdampbadet i lynende fart forsvinder ud ad vinduet. Hans tjener, negeren Dan, undrer sig, men ingen af dem har nogen anelse om hvad der er sket.

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Great early Space Opera by one of the genre's best writers of the first half of the 20th century. It's no wonder Frederick Pohl gave Smith such high praise. E.E. Doc Smith was one of the better writers published in the SciFi pulp magazines. He really knew how to tell an adventure story.

This was one of his early works and he only got better with the Lensmen books. It comes across a bit dated but it was written almost a 100 years ago. Full of fun and danger. ( )

The birth of epic space opera marred by the melodrama of the time. Seminal, important, required but barely readable. ( )