- Smith, Edward E. Triplanetary. Baltimore: Old
Earth Books, [1948] 1997. ISBN 1-882968-09-3.
- Summer's here (though you'd never guess from the
thermometer), and the time is right for some light reading,
so I've begun my fourth lifetime traverse of Doc Smith's
Lensman series, which now, by
Klono's gadolinium guts, has been re-issued by Old Earth Books in
trade paperback facsimiles of the original Fantasy Press editions,
complete with all illustrations. The snarky foreword, where John
Clute, co-editor of The Encyclopedia of Science Fiction,
shows off his pretentious post-modern vocabulary and scorn for the
sensibilities of an author born in 1890, is best skipped.
June 2004 