Spacehounds of IPC

When the Inter-Planetary Corporation's flagship Arcturus launches on what should be a routine run to Mars, no one anticipates the voyage that follows. Brilliant physicist Dr. Percival "Steve" Stevens is aboard to investigate a disturbing pattern: the Check Stations have been flagging the ship's navigators for errors, an accusation that strikes at a pilot's very honor. Stevens and the crew soon discover the truth - it was never the Arcturus that was lost in space - but their vindication offers cold comfort when a mysterious globe-shaped vessel attacks and strands them among the stars. E.E. "Doc" Smith, a founding father of space opera, delivers the genre at its purest: bold pilots, hard science, interplanetary intrigue, and the unshakeable conviction that courage and ingenuity can carry humanity through any cosmic catastrophe. This is 1931 at its finest - adventurous, optimistic, and utterly unafraid of the void.