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Title: Second Stage Lensmen (The Lensman Series, Book 5) by Edward E. Smith ISBN: 1882968131 Publisher: Old Earth Books Format: Paperback Volumes: 1 List Price(USD): $15.00 |
Average Customer Rating: 4.75
Rating: 4
Summary: By Noshabkeming, it's still a great yarn!
Comment: If you ever wonder how much American society has changed since the early '50's, just a little of Smith's dialogue will set you up with everything you need to know.
"'Listen, angel-face!' the man commanded. 'You're as mad as a radeligian cateagle - you're as cockeyed as Trenco's ether. Get this, and get it straight. To any really intelligent being of any one of forty million planets, your whole Lyranian race would be a total loss with no insurance. You're a God-forsaken, spiritually and emotionally starved, barren, mentally ossified, and completely monstrous mess. If I, personally, never see either you or your planet again, that will be exactly twenty seven minutes too soon. If anybody else ever hears of Lyrane and thinks he wants to visit it, I'll take him out of - I'll knock a hip down on him if I have to, to keep him away from here. Do I make myself clear?'"
And that's the ur-goodguy addressing the head of state of a neutral planet. Golly.
The science is ludicrous, the politics militaristic and jingoistic in the extreme. I never can keep all the trenchant, searing, biting space battles of brain-straining refractoriness straight. The dialogue often makes me laugh out loud, and the gender and (to the extent they appear at all) race relations make me squirm in my chair. So why is all this still so readable?
I guess it's for the same reason the old Conan stories by Robert E. Howard (a much inferior writer to Smith) are still among my favorites: STORY. Once you get past all the back-story in Triplanetary, the narrative just grabs you by the collar and doesn't let you go until Kit Kinnison sends out his message in a bottle in the epilogue of the final volume. If I had back all the hours of sleep I've traded for late night sessions with "Doc" Smith, I wouldn't wake up for months.
And by the nine purple hells of Palain, isn't that what escapist reading is for?
Rating: 5
Summary: Doc's best
Comment: Perhaps the best of the Lensman series, with Doc's best alien, Nadreck of Palain VII.
Rating: 5
Summary: Best of Kimball Kinnison
Comment: Finally the book I have been waiting for since 1982. I first read this book in the 1970's, and read it at least 50-60 times. However, it was lost while moving in 1982 and I have been searching avidly for it ever since. In this book, Kimball Kinnison does some of his best work as a lensman. However then best part about this book is we get to see the work of other lensman, as well as of the galactic patrol itself. In this we see that much of what makes people great are the people they associate with; a lesson of great value today. This is perhaps the inspiration for many of today's ensemble cast shows. An excellent read by one of the worlds greatest storytellers.
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Title: Children of the Lens (The Lensman Series, Book 6) by Edward E. Smith ISBN: 188296814X Publisher: Old Earth Books Pub. Date: November, 1998 List Price(USD): $15.00 |
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Title: Gray Lensman (The Lensman Series, Book 4) by Edward E. Smith ISBN: 1882968123 Publisher: Old Earth Books Pub. Date: November, 1998 List Price(USD): $15.00 |
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Title: Galactic Patrol (The Lensman Series, Book 3) by Edward E. Smith, John Clute ISBN: 1882968115 Publisher: Old Earth Books Pub. Date: November, 1998 List Price(USD): $15.00 |
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Title: First Lensman (The Lensman Series, Book 2) by Edward E. Smith ISBN: 1882968107 Publisher: Old Earth Books Pub. Date: December, 1998 List Price(USD): $15.00 |
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Title: Triplanetary: A Tale of Cosmic Adventure (Lensman Series, Book 1) by Edward E. Smith, A. J. Donnell ISBN: 1882968093 Publisher: Old Earth Books Pub. Date: December, 1997 List Price(USD): $15.00 |
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