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Path: ...!fu-berlin.de!uni-berlin.de!individual.net!not-for-mail From: ted@loft.tnolan.com (Ted Nolan <tednolan>) Newsgroups: rec.arts.sf.written Subject: Re: "Chronicles of the Lensmen, Volume 1 (Triplanetary, First Lensman, Galactic Patrol)" by E. E. "Doc" Smith Date: 21 Aug 2024 19:17:47 GMT Organization: loft Lines: 72 Message-ID: <limsqqF9t71U1@mid.individual.net> References: <va58up$3utu3$1@dont-email.me> <va5e2m$3vb2a$4@dont-email.me> X-Trace: individual.net 0PnmhZroueqDh8Y52Y8nPAiEYWwFBu3O8bROmP7MF7Q0VaS0he X-Orig-Path: not-for-mail Cancel-Lock: sha1:ViH512NLNGdbbvwTm5M1AmupKKQ= sha256:UAsyBYIFnWxly9ynyuZAfe/BkuA9kFcbJ95efzMDAsM= X-Newsreader: trn 4.0-test76 (Apr 2, 2001) Bytes: 4128 In article <va5e2m$3vb2a$4@dont-email.me>, Bobbie Sellers <blissInSanFrancisco@mouse-potato.com> wrote: >On 8/21/24 10:42, Lynn McGuire wrote: >> "Chronicles of the Lensmen, Volume 1 (Triplanetary, First Lensman, >> Galactic Patrol)" by E. E. "Doc" Smith >> >> >https://www.amazon.com/Chronicles-Lensmen-Triplanetary-Lensman-Galactic/dp/1568658044/ >> >> Book number one of a two book space opera science fiction series. I >> read the well printed and well bound hardback published by the Science >> Fiction Book Club in 1998 that I bought used from Amazon recently. In >> fact, I was inspired by Heinlein's "The Pursuit of the Pankera" that I >> read recently to read this book. I have ordered book two of the series >> and will read it soon. >> >> https://www.amazon.com/Pursuit-Pankera-Parallel-Novel-Universes/dp/1647100291/ >> >> This book actually consists of three books published by E. E. "Doc" >> Smith. "Triplanetary" was published in 1948. "First Lensmen" was >> published in 1950. And "Galactic Patrol" was published in 1950. The >> books are dated by time with what was normal in the 1930s and 1940s is >> no longer normal for our times other than a minimal segment of the >> United States society. >> >> "Triplanetary" starts off with a detailed conflict between the Arisians >> in our galaxy and the Eddorians in a second galaxy over two thousand >> million years ago. The two galaxies are colliding over and incrdible >> period of time and the two races are conflicting for control of the >> merged galaxy. Also detailed is the various time periods on Earth and >> other planets that the Eddorians destroyed in order to maintain their >> supposed supremacy over the galaxies. They even caused a nuclear >> conflict between Atlantis and her colonies. >> >> "First Lensmen" is the story of the Arisians contacting the Virgil Samms >> to become the first Lensman and spread the Lens technology among >> individuals who are deserving of the technology. Other technologies are >> rapidly advanced such as multiple light year speeds of space travel >> using inertialess generators. >> >> "Galactic Patrol" is the story of the various conflicts between the >> Eddorian supported space pirates and the Arisian supported Lensmen. Most >> of the book is about Rod Kinnison's various exploits to expose and >> destroy the space pirates that are plaguing the commerce of the galactic >> free planets. >> >> My rating: 5 out of 5 stars >> Amazon rating: 4.4 out of 5 stars (82 ratings) >> >> Lynn >> >I concur on your evaluation of the series which is a bit longer than >than you review as I remember but I read this stuff quite a while >back. We have volumes that deal with the defeat of Arisian's foes. >and the eventual emergence of a LensWoman. I remember Worsel the >Velantian who was quite dragonlike and a lot of other imagined >alien life forms who joined the Galactic Patrol. > > > But it is over 50 years since I looked at those books >and I awaited them with abated breath on trips to the Sacramento >City Public Library. > It looks like they are all on Gutenberg now as well: https://www.gutenberg.org/browse/authors/s#a9515 Including both versions of Triplanetary. -- columbiaclosings.com What's not in Columbia anymore..