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| Author | Edward E. Smith, Ph.D. |
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| Illustrator | A. J. Donnell |
| Cover artist | A. J. Donnell |
| Language | English |
| Genre | Science fiction |
| Publisher | Fantasy Press |
Publication date | 1947 |
| Publication place | United States |
| Media type | Print (Hardback) |
| Pages | 257 |
| OCLC | 1234601 |
The first two installments of the Spacehounds serialization were cover-featured on Amazing Stories, illustrated by Leo Morey
Spacehounds of IPC is a science fiction novel by American writer E. E. Smith. It was first published in book form in 1947 by Fantasy Press in an edition of 2,008 copies. It was the first book published by Fantasy Press. The novel was originally serialized in the August, September and October issues of the magazine Amazing Stories in 1931. Smith was disenchanted when he saw editor T. O'Conor Sloane's unauthorized changes in the story, most likely made to give equal length to each of the three parts it had been split into.[1]
The story was the first to use the term "tractor beam", a name and concept that has been adopted by many subsequent literary works of fiction and other media to the present day.