Reading The Skylark of Space | Alexandria
Read The Skylark of Space by E. E. Smith. Pioneering faster-than-light travel through advanced chemistry, The Skylark of Space shattered sci-fi conventions in 1928 by merging hard science with space opera spectacle. Smith's groundbreaking insight that interstellar conquest would require both technological AND psychological evolution remains eerily prescient, while his copper-based FTL drive challenged period assumptions about physics' limits.