Roverton: Two Stories and a Fragment

Roverton, also known as the Captain Volmar stories, are two novelettes and an unfinished fragment of the spacefarer James Roverton and his encounters with alien plants, animals, and civilizations. Roverton is less well known than some of Smith's other series, but is no less gripping.

In the early days of science fiction, most authors assumed that environmental conditions such as a breathable atmosphere on other planets would be similar to those here on earth. Early writers also mostly believ...