"Spacehounds of IPC" by E. E. Smith is a science fiction novel first serialized in 1931. When the space-liner Arcturus is attacked and dismembered by a mysterious globe-shaped ship, physicist Steve Stevens and passenger Nadia Newton become stranded on Jupiter's moon Ganymede. Forced to rebuild technology from scratch, they must survive alien encounters, navigate treacherous space, and forge an unlikely alliance with the combustible inhabitants of Titan to find their way home. (This is an automatically generated summary.)