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From: BillGill <tonisdad215@gmail.com>
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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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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