The book “The Bloody Eye of Sarpedion” opens the collected works of the classic of American science fiction Edward Elmer “Doc” Smith. This volume includes the best short stories of the writer, created in the genre of historical fantasy and “space opera”. The first of them (“The Bloody Eye of Sarpedion”) tells about the attempt of people of the future to get rid of some mysterious mystical danger that threatens their world by changing the historical past. The second (“Stars of the Empire”) describes the puzzling adventures of two superman space agents, natives of a planet with triple gravity, searching, at the behest of the ruler of the Earth Empire, for his unknown and anonymous opponents who claim the throne. The rest of the works, written in a lively and exciting manner, are extremely diverse in theme - here there is a war with robots, and battles with space pirates, and other amazing and charming fantasies created by the talent of “Doc” Smith, a writer and scientist. The novel “The Bloody Eye of Sarpedion” "was actually created by M. Nachmanson based on two stories by Smith, "Tedric" and "Lord Tedric." "In the Depths of Space" - a fragment of the novel "Space Lark" "Space Pirates" - a fragment of the novel "Triplanety" Art design by A. Shirkin .