(Download) "Space Hounds of Ipc (Serapis Classics)" by E. E. Smith ~ Book PDF Kindle ePub Free
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- Title: Space Hounds of Ipc (Serapis Classics)
- Author : E. E. Smith
- Release Date : January 12, 2017
- Genre: Science Fiction,Books,Sci-Fi & Fantasy,
- Pages : * pages
- Size : 1339 KB
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A NARROW football of steel, the Interplanetary Vessel Arcturus stood upright in her berth in the dock like an egg in its cup. A hundred feet across and a hundred and seventy feet deep was that gigantic bowl, its walls supported by the structural steel and concrete of the dock and lined with hard-packed bumper-layers of hemp and fibre. High into the air extended the upper half of the ship of space - a sullen gray expanse of fifty-inch hardened steel armor, curving smoothly upward to a needle prow. Countless hundred of fine vertical scratches marred every inch of her surface, and here and there the stubborn metal was grooved and scored to a depth of inches - each scratch and score the record of an attempt of some wandering cosmic body to argue the right-of-way with the stupendous mass of that man-made cruiser of the void...