Galactic Patrol

Dreadful space opera trash - none the less, this book holds a special place in my heart because of the circumstances in which I read it. I discovered E.E. Doc Smith when I was 8 (this is the right age to appreciate him), and was so entranced that I brought Galactic Patrol with me to school so that I......more

Galactic Patrol Scandal! Diabolical Drug Used on Trenco! "Well, those Lensmen started handing out sugar and the next thing you know - I'm addicted to the stuff. Now I just hang around their base doing anything they want for a little taste..." - The Trenconian Tattler Yeah, apart from the corruption*......more

This is listed as Book 3 in the Lensman series but it was actually the first written. It appeared originally in the Sf magazines. When the series was later issued in book form Smith re-wrote parts of Book #1 Triplanetary to strengthen it's coonection to the series and book @2 First Lensmen was writt......more

After almost 500 pages of back story...after a history of the conflict between the superraces of Arisia and Eddore that stretches back 2 billion years, and includes glimpses of Earth's lost continent of Atlantis and the Holy Roman Empire...after at least six major space battles, explorations of any......more

You know, I really was beginning to think that there must've been a wholly different standard of judgement back when this series came out. I mean, Triplanetary was a mess, a decent mess, but a mess nevertheless. I couldn't even get into The First Lensman because it read like a mix of responses to cr......more