I went to a charity book fair the other weekend. Someone had evidently been keen on traditional space opera, because I managed to find a number of vintage paperbacks containing early science fiction reprints:
IT STARTED ON EARTH...
Scientist Richard Seaton had discovered the secret of complete release of ultimate energy--the key to exploration of the Universe. The powerful, unscrupulous DuQuesne, backed by a great industrial combine, tried every means to gain the secret.
... it ended in space, when Seaton, DuQuesne, and three others--two of them women--were marooned, countless light-years from Earth, with only one chance in a million of ever returning!
OSNOME
The first of the mighty Skylark spacecraft took Dick Seaton and Mart Crane on a fantastic tour of the galaxy and to the strange planet of Osnome. Skylark Two returned them to Earth. Now in this next adventure, they voyage again to Osnome to meet the deadly threat of war.
On the way, in the deeps of space, Seaton and Crane meet an alien spaceship. From it they discover a danger more deadly and immediate than any planetary battle. In a desperate race to mobilize the scientific talent of a score of planets, Seaton makes himself into a "superman" of knowledge and drives toward his goal of building the greatest spaceship of all time--Skylark Three!
Look up in the sky! It's a bird, it's a plane, it's... a
cosmic beach ball! Seventies cover art meets
very old-fashioned space opera, of the sort where men wield "rays" and women need rescuing.
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