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From: ted@loft.tnolan.com (Ted Nolan <tednolan>)
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Subject: Re: "Chronicles of the Lensmen, Volume 1 (Triplanetary, First
 Lensman, Galactic Patrol)" by E. E. "Doc" Smith
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In article <va7e4g$eqhm$1@dont-email.me>,
BillGill  <tonisdad215@gmail.com> wrote:
>On 8/21/2024 2:17 PM, Ted Nolan <tednolan> wrote:
>> 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.
>
>Thank you for the link to Gutenberg.  I thought I had
>all of Smith's books in paperback.  Now I will be able
>to get them in digital form, so I can add them to my
>digital library.
>
>Also I see that there are a number of books that I
>don't have.
>
>Bill
>

They aren't all "books" to be sure.  There is the chapter he did
for the round-robin serial "Cosmos" and a number of short
stories/novelettes (including the individual Storm Cloud stories
which were later published as a fixup novel).
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