The Best of E.E. "Doc" Smith_ (1975) is a collection of eight short selections from The Master, assembled roughly ten years after his death. They span a period from 1928 to 1964, most all of his writing career. Smith did not publish a lot of short fiction, so this may be considered a fairly representative volume.
The stories are: "To the Far Reaches of Space" (_Amazing_, 1928), "Robot Nemesis" (_Thrilling Wonder Stories_, 1939), "Pirates of Space" (_Amazing_, 1934), "The Vortex Blaster" (_Comet_, 1941), "Tedric" (_Other Worlds_, 1953), "Lord Tedric" (_Universe_, 1954), "Subspace Survivors" (_Astounding_, 1960), and "The Imperial Stars" (_If_, 1964). Two of the stories are excerpts from novels. "To the Far Reaches of Space" is an excerpt from _The Skylark of Space_, and "Pirates of Space" is an excerpt from _Triplanetary_. "The Vortex Blaster" and "Subspace Survivors" are not excerpts, but they provided the basis for two novels. Of the six "non-excerpt" stories, "The Vortex Blaster" has been the most oft-reprinted, with "Robot Nemesis" a distant second.
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