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Spacehounds of IPC: A Tale of the Inter-Planetary Corporation
Author: | E. E. "Doc" Smith |
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Fantasy Press, 1947 Amazing Stories, 1931 |
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Book Type: | Novel |
Genre: | Science-Fiction |
Sub-Genre Tags: | Alien Invasion First Contact Space Opera |
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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 an 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 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 Check Stations desk-jockeys' implications of imprecision - the nastiest insult one could cast at a ship's pilot.
He and the pilots are right, it was the Check Stations that were out of position, not the ships. But that is cold consolation because before the Arcturus reaches Mars, it is attacked by a small, mysterious, globe-shaped space-ship...
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