Hey folks.
I'm a sci fi nerd. Last night I was re-reading one of E.E. "Doc" Smith's last books, "Subspace Explorers".
Doc's space opera books, like the Lensman series, contain some elements of politics, and he clearly has sympathies that parallel mine (or I parallel what his were, whatever). But re-reading S.E. last night I was grinning ear-to-ear, because even though it was written 40 years ago by a guy who had started writing stuff like that back in the 1930s, it is has wonderful parallels with some of today's issues.
So I think everyone should find a copy and read it, and then we could discuss it.
It's hokey, it's pulpy, it's heroic, but keep in mind that it's by the author that invented hokey, pulpy, and heroic space opera. Literally.
Anyway, that's my recommendation.
-dale
I'm a sci fi nerd. Last night I was re-reading one of E.E. "Doc" Smith's last books, "Subspace Explorers".
Doc's space opera books, like the Lensman series, contain some elements of politics, and he clearly has sympathies that parallel mine (or I parallel what his were, whatever). But re-reading S.E. last night I was grinning ear-to-ear, because even though it was written 40 years ago by a guy who had started writing stuff like that back in the 1930s, it is has wonderful parallels with some of today's issues.
So I think everyone should find a copy and read it, and then we could discuss it.
It's hokey, it's pulpy, it's heroic, but keep in mind that it's by the author that invented hokey, pulpy, and heroic space opera. Literally.
Anyway, that's my recommendation.
-dale
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