Show #30 will be about E. E. “Doc” Smith’s “Galactic Patrol”, part of the classic Lensman series.
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Ninjas,
This was a favorite series of mine as a young teen but I found the books unreadable only a few years later.
Still, I might be willing to try again. Do you know if the copyright period is past- could these books one day be found at Guttenberg or the like?
Are there space axes in Galactic Patrol?- someone should discuss them!
Brian
Right on, I’ve been waiting for a Lensman discussion for a long, long time!
To answer my own question, Guttenburg does have some EE smith books, although not Galactic Patrol (so far as I saw, there may be an omibus edition there, add your own disclaimer). The only book in the Lensman series I found was Triplanetary.
http://www.gutenberg.org/browse/authors/s#a9515
The copy of Galactic Patrol that I borrowed from Kris was an omnibus of First Lensman, Triplanetary and Galactic Patrol. I believe it was an SFBC collection, but I can’t recall at this point, since I’ve returned the book to her